·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