Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Directors - Page 2

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.

If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.

At AFI, you make three cycle films your first year, and then you make a thesis film your second year, and I watched Darren Aronofsky's cycle films and was blown away - there was a young Lucy Liu, who was just part of that generation. And I just wanted to be part of that tradition.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

I grew up peeling shrimp and making tartar sauce.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars and electing our politicians based on their religious statements.

I think human relationships - the whole thing is cruel. It's very difficult.

Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme.

For me in a horror film, just looking down a long corridor and seeing somebody standing there, the simplest thing in the world, has a really seismic impact to me.

I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.

I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.

I am grateful to all the ups and downs in my life.

It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.

Life is not only about dark nights; it's also about beautiful, sunshiny mornings.

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

I hate exposition and superfluous dialogue. I hate when dialogue is trying to explain or patronize or finger-point.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.

The Kashmir Files' is based on the mass exodus of Kashmiri pandits from the valley in 1989-90 due to militancy.

Living in lawlessness gives you lawlessness.

I am happy that I am back and with a great project like 'Vicky Donor.' I have had a hard time in the past with 'Johnny Mastana' getting stuck but I hope this film brings positiveness into my life.

With a lot of these social realist films, the first thing you do is drain the color.

I am a great fan of Marathi cinema because they have been doing great work.

'Pi' was one of my favorite films growing up because I thought it employed paranoia and voice-over, and also because it used this unreliable narrator in a very fascinating way.

What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.

When I was approached by Warner Bros. and DC about the possibility of directing 'The Flash,' I was excited about the opportunity to enter this amazing world of characters that I loved growing up, and still do to this day.

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

If you work hard, nothing is impossible.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that, but also, by contrast, reflect on how nature so often offers grace.

It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so far behind the facade that he can no longer find the real person himself.

My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

'Article 15' prohibits any kind of discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, or religion. My film is about the discrimination we practice on various levels.

I only think that awards are important to everybody and if not that, a nomination serves as a recognition and a positive drive to do better work.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.

When I did a film with Salman Khan, he used to get up at 5 in the morning for shoots. If I can handle Salman then I think nobody in the industry is a problem.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory for the economy and things that were to happen. And that was so on the nose in the movie for me. I was like, 'That's obvious.' It's the other stuff about marriage and commitment and those other things that I spent the most time thinking about.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

Sheep are just psychotic.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

I worked every day. I never turned down a stunt.