Interesting Quotes

Interesting Quotes Of Cinema Directors

·         The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
--Christopher Nolan

·         The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
--Brian De Palma

·         Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
--Roman Polanski

·         Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
--Robert Rodriguez

·         Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
--Martin Scorsese

·         People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
--Ridley Scott

·         A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.
--Steven Soderbergh

·         Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
--Steven Spielberg

·         But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
--Oliver Stone

·         A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
--Quentin Tarantino

·         It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.
--Robert Altman

·         Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
--Tim Burton

·         The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.
--George Clooney

·         We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
--Ethan Coen

·         There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.
--David Fincher

·         I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
--Howard Hawks

·         I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.
--Jim Jarmusch

·         A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
--Stanley Kubrick

·         I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.
--David Lynch

·         For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
--Alfred Hitchcock

·         The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
--Alfred Hitchcock

·         Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
--Francis Ford Coppola

·         Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out
--Martin Scorsese