Cinema Quote by Stanley Donen Download Open image “I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.” — Stanley Donen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Directors Kind Meat Meat and potatoes Potatoes Thinking
I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors. — Joseph Morgan Copy Share Image
I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director. — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second. — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.'… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do. — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town. — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun. — Stanley Donen 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… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
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
