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| Alexandro Jodorowsky | | "Most Directors Make Films With Their Eyes; I Make Films With My Testicles." |
| Alfred Hitchcock | | "Drama is Life With the Dull Bits Cut Out." |
Anglo-American filmmaker.
| Alfred Hitchcock | | "For Me, the Cinema is Not a Slice of Life, but a Piece of Cake." |
Anglo-American filmmaker.
| Alfred Hitchcock | | "In Films Murders Are Always Very Clean. I Show How Difficult It is and What a Messy Thing It is to Kill a Man." |
| Alfred Hitchcock | | "The Length of a Film Should Be Directly Related to the Endurance of the Human Bladder." |
| Alfred Hitchcock | | "There is No Terror in a Bang, Only in the Anticipation of It." |
Anglo-American filmmaker.
| Alan Parker | | "Most Directors Have Little Lists in Their Heads of People They Really Want to Work With." |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | | "If New York is the Big Apple, Tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple." |
Italian filmmaker. Quoted in Guardian (London, April 13, 1988). Said at Oscar presentation ceremony.
| Brian De Palma | | "The Biggest Mistake in Student Films is That They Are Usually Cast So Badly, With Friends and People the Directors Know." |
| Bryan Forbes | | "Nothing Recedes Like Success." |
British author, actor, filmmaker.
| Charlie Chaplin | | "All I Need to Make a Comedy is a Park, a Policeman and a Pretty Girl." |
British comic actor, filmmaker.
| Charlie Chaplin | | "The Basic Essential of a Great Actor is That He Loves Himself in Acting." |
British comic actor, filmmaker.
| Charlie Chaplin | | "Brunettes Are Troublemakers. They’re Worse Than the Jews." |
British comic actor, filmmaker.
| Charlie Chaplin | | "Dictators Free Themselves, but They Enslave the People." |
British comic actor, filmmaker.
| Charlie Chaplin | | "Have Them All Shot. I Don’t Want Any of My Workers Dissatisfied." |
British comic actor, filmmaker.
| Charlie Chaplin | | "I Have No Further Use for America. I Wouldn’t Go Back There if Jesus Christ Was President." |
British comic actor, filmmaker.
| Charlie Chaplin | | "The Saddest Thing I Can Imagine is to Get Used to Luxury." |
British comic actor, filmmaker.
| Christopher Nolan | | "The Best Actors Instinctively Feel out What the Other Actors Need, and They Just Accommodate It." |
| Curtis Hanson | | "A Theme That Has Always Interested Me is the Difference Between How Things Appear and How They Are. Image Versus Reality." |
| David Cronenberg | | "Censors Tend to Do What Only Psychotics Do: They Confuse Reality With Illusion." |
Canadian filmmaker.
| David Lynch | | "This Whole World is Wild at Heart and Weird on Top." |
U.S. filmmaker.
| Derek Jarman | | "The Preserve of Ambition and Folly in Pursuit of Illusion, or ... Delusion." |
British filmmaker, artist, author.
| Francis Ford Coppola | | "Anything You Build on a Large Scale or With Intense Passion Invites Chaos." |
| Frank Capra | | "Film is One of the Three Universal Languages, the Other Two: Mathematics and Music." |
| Frank Darabont | | "I Don't Think I'm Giving Away Any Secrets Here, but There's a Lot of Terrible Scripts in This Town." |
| George Lucas | | "Film is Not an Easy Occupation, There Are a Lot of Occupations That Are Difficult and Film is Just One of Them." |
| George A Romero | | "The Most Realistic Blood I've Seen is when Marlon Brando Gets Beat up in On The Waterfront." |
| George Roy Hill | | "People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It." |
| Gus Van Sant | | "And Later I Thought, I Can’t Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography." |
| Ian Shoales | | "Sigmund Freud Was a Half-baked Viennese Quack. Our Literature, Culture, and the Films of Woody Allen Would Be Better Today if Freud Had Never Written a Word." |
| Jean-Luc Godard | | "All You Need for a Movie is a Gun and a Girl." |
French filmmaker, author.
| Jean-Luc Godard | | "Art Attracts Us Only by What It Reveals of Our Most Secret Self." |
French filmmaker, author.
| Jean-Luc Godard | | "Photography is Truth. The Cinema is Truth Twenty-four Times Per Second." |
French filmmaker,
| Jean-Luc Godard | | "The Truth is That There is No Terror Untempered by Some Great Moral Idea." |
French filmmaker, author.
| Jean Cocteau | | "After the Writer’s Death, Reading His Journal is Like Receiving a Long Letter." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Cocteau | | "Art is Science Made Clear." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Cocteau | | "The Day of My Birth, My Death Began Its Walk. It is Walking Toward Me, Without Hurrying." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Cocteau | | "The Extreme Limit of Wisdom—that’s What the Public Calls Madness." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Cocteau | | "A Film is a Petrified Fountain of Thought." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Cocteau | | "In Paris, Everybody Wants to Be an Actor; Nobody is Content to Be a Spectator." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Cocteau | | "Life is a Horizontal Fall." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Cocteau | | "An Original Artist is Unable to Copy. So He Has Only to Copy in Order to Be Original." |
French author, filmmaker
| Jean Cocteau | | "Tact in Audacity Consists in Knowing How Far We May Go Too Far." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Cocteau | | "The Worst Tragedy for a Poet is to Be Admired Through Being Misunderstood." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Jean Renoir | | "A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again." |
| John Carpenter | | "In England I'm a Horror Movie Director, in Germany I'm a Filmmaker. In the US I'm a Bum." |
| John Huston | | "I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like." |
| Kirk Douglas | | "Life is Like a B-picture Script. It is That Corny. If I Had My Life Story Offered to Me to Film, I'd Turn It Down." |
| Louis Malle | | "You Must Find the Note, the Correct Key, for Your Story. If You Find It, Everything Will Work." |
| Luis Buñuel | | "I Can Only Wait for the Final Amnesia, the One That Can Erase an Entire Life." |
Spanish filmmaker.
| Luis Buñuel | | "A Paranoiac ... Like a Poet, is Born, Not Made." |
Spanish filmmaker.
| Marguerite Duras | | "Acting Doesn’t Bring Anything to a Text. On the Contrary, It Detracts from It." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Marguerite Duras | | "It Was the Men I Deceived the Most That I Loved the Most." |
French author, filmmaker.
| Michael Winner | | "During the Sixties, the Americans Thought I Was the Greatest Thing in the History of Cinema." |
| Milos Forman | | "I Get out of the Taxi and It's Probably the Only City Which in Reality Looks Better Than on the Postcards. New York." |
| Oliver Stone | | "But I Suppose Film is Distinctive Because of Its Nature, of Its Being Able to Cut Through Time With Editing." |
| Orson Welles | | "Ecstasy is Not Really Part of the Scene We Can Do on Celluloid." |
U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer.
| Orson Welles | | "Everybody Denies I Am a Genius—but Nobody Ever Called Me One!" |
U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer.
| Orson Welles | | "A Good Artist Should Be Isolated. If He Isn’t Isolated, Something is Wrong." |
U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer. Interview, Hollywood Voices
| Orson Welles | | "I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts." |
U.S. filmmaker.
| Paul Schrader | | "Each Time You Come Away, You Know, You Learn Something. You Get Better at Your Craft." |
| Phillip Noyce | | "Making Movies is Eating Candy. It’s a Very Expensive Candy, So You Value when You Can Do It." |
| Quentin Tarantino | | "If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies." |
| Rita Mae Brown | | "Television and Film Demand That People at All Levels Have Brass Balls or Brass Ovaries. Unfortunately, We Live in the Reign of the Eunuch." |
| Samuel Goldwyn | | "I Don't Want Any Yes-men Around Me. I Want Everybody to Tell Me the Truth Even if It Costs Them Their Jobs." |
| Samuel Goldwyn | | "We Want a Story That Begins With an Earthquake and Works Its Way up to a Climax." |
| Sidney Lumet | | "For Any Director With a Little Lucidity, Masterpieces Are Films That Come to You by Accident." |
| Spike Lee | | "A Lot of Times You Get Credit for Stuff in Your Movie You Didn't Intend to Be There." |
| Stanley Kubrick | | "A Filmmaker Has Almost the Same Freedom As a Novelist Has when He Buys Himself Some Paper.”" |
| Stanley Kubrick | | "I Don’t Actually Know Tom That Well." |
Speaking about Tom Cruise
| Steven Soderbergh | | "Lying is Like Alcoholism. You Are Always Recovering." |
U.S. filmmaker.
| Steven Soderbergh | | "A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn’t Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit." |
| Vincente Minnelli | | "Somebody Said, if You Give a Script to Five Different Famous Directors, You’d Get Five Different Pictures. And I Believe That." |
| William Friedkin | | "The Audience Was Ready for That Type of Character, a Cop Who Would Take the Law Into His Own Hands and Hold Court in the Street." |
Speaking about Popeye Doyle in The French Connection
| Wim Wenders | | "The More Opinions You Have, the Less You See." |
German filmmaker.
| Woody Allen | | "Harvard Makes Mistakes Too, You Know. Kissinger Taught There." |
U.S. filmmaker, actor
| Woody Allen | | "I Don’t Want to Achieve Immortality Through My Work ... I Want to Achieve It Through Not Dying." |
U.S. filmmaker.
| Woody Allen | | "If Only God Would Give Me Some Clear Sign! Like Making a Large Deposit in My Name at a Swiss Bank." |
U.S. filmmaker.
| Woody Allen | | "In Beverly Hills ... They Don’t Throw Their Garbage Away. They Make It Into Television Shows." |
U.S. filmmaker.
| Woody Allen | | "I Took a Speed Reading Course and Read 'War and Peace' in Twenty Minutes. It Involves Russia." |
| Woody Allen | | "It's Not That I'm Afraid to Die, I Just Don't Want to Be There when It Happens" |
American film director and actor
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