Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Nicholas Ray

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American director Nicholas Ray.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Nicholas Ray was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including They Live By Night, In A Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and Bigger Than Life, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death.

American - Director | August 7, 1911 - June 16, 1979

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An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

Nicholas Ray

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

Nicholas Ray

I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then to implement it.

Nicholas Ray

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

Nicholas Ray

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

Nicholas Ray

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

Nicholas Ray

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

Nicholas Ray

In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

Nicholas Ray

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Nicholas Ray

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