Cinema Quote by Peter Brook Download Open image “The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.” — Peter Brook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Directors Inspirational Simple Simple words Two
A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created. — Charles Keating Copy Share Image
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities. — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle. — Andre Øvredal Copy Share Image
Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't. — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people.… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all they have… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned,… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
