Best Film Director Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.”

“Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage.”

“If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene and enjoy it, that idea is worth making for the world to see. It can change someone's life.”

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Author:Craig Mapp

“Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.”

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Book:The Film Testament

Source: The Film Testament

“If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.”

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Author:Craig Mapp

“An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie.”

“A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.”

“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

Source: The Film Testament

“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.”

Source: The Film Testament

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Career-building is fifty percent creative, fifty percent business. If you don’t respect both sides, you’ll stall.”

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Author:Jen Alvares

“It was thanks to Alfred Hitchcock that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.”

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Author:Grace Kelly

“With every movie that they do, they’ll come up with a few films they really like and we’ll talk about them. Way back when we did Barton Fink, Joel and Ethan would say, ’Think Kubrick!”

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Book:The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together

Source: The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together

“People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness, and he'd walk out or fall asleep.”

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Book:Showgirls: Portrait of a Film

Source: Showgirls: Portrait of a Film

“You can’t edit your way out of unclear direction. Clarity starts in development and pre-production. By the time you say “Action,” it’s already too late.”

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Author:Jen Alvares

“Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is to all the artists, musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, dancers, screenwriters, philosophers, inventors and poetic hearts that create a perspective of heaven we can experience in this lifetime. But most of all, here is to the wild souls that the world calls broken, insane, abnormal, weird or different because they are the ones that renew our faith, by what they overcome and create, in a world that needs a sign that God doesn’t forget the least of us.”