Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Directors - Page 17

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come true - that, to me, is what's beautiful about Los Angeles. It's full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams.

Awards are an encouragement. An award is not something we aim at while making a film.

Fitness is about keeping yourself healthy. This is something you do for yourself and for your loved ones.

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

We talk about how hard it is now. But if we look back at the '60s, we actually had a president that was assassinated. We had riots, we had Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the FBI, and the Black Panther war. There was so much happening at the time where it felt like America was coming apart at the seams.

I don't believe in gratitude.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.

I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

Honestly speaking, I am very hardcore when it comes to my music because at the end of the day the song that I am creating will remain forever.

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

I'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments.

For 'Neer,' we spent about Rs. 70,000 just on the boat.

Free time keeps me going.

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

I'm a huge Nagisa Oshima fan. He was one of the most radical Japanese directors to come up in the '60s.

We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

India is the country which makes the maximum number of movies. Cinema is one of our religions.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.

Wedding films are always about the differences between people. But they haven't quite dealt with African-Americans and Latinos.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

The ridiculous events in everyday life are often overlooked - people don't recognise it as potentially cinematic.

I'm too old and too rich to do any more stunts.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.

If you're engaged more than a year, there's something up. There's lot of debate as to whether one should or shouldn't get married, but when you get engaged, it's a promise to get married, and if you don't just do it within a year, one of the parties is using the excuse of, like, 'I can't find the right venue' to put off the wedding.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.

I'm excited to see her power really soar and us have a great time having a great Wonder Woman in our world.

Biopics no longer have to be about national leaders and well known achievers. Look at 'Sarbjit.' It is about an ordinary Punjabi woman's extraordinary courage to prove her brother's innocence.

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.