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“A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.”

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“Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one of the world's greatest film directors. He can only phrase his dissent obliquely, in his art. Writers in "free" societies labor under no such constraints. They can write more or less whatever they want in both their fiction and their commentary. Yet so many of them look oddly inhibited, even timid, and depressingly a couple of prominent figures actually positioned themselves to the right of their governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.”

“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.”

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

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Author:Ingmar Bergman

“You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”

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Author:Federico Fellini

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

“And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”

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Book:Notes on the Cinematograph

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“One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.”

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Author:Ron Howard

“Art depends on luck and talent.”

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Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

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Author:Ingmar Bergman

“I am the best film director in the world.”

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Author:Lars von Trier

“Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.”

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Author:Akira Kurosawa

“The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.”

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Author:Sergei Eisenstein

“The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.”

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Author:Ken Loach

“A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.”

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Author:Jean Renoir

“I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.”

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Author:Park Chan-wook

“I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.”

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Author:Park Chan-wook

“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”

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Author:Robert Olen Butler

“In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.”

“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.”

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Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”

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Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.”

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Author:Jean Renoir

“All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.”

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Author:David Lynch

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“People have forgotten how to tell a story.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.”

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Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.”

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Author:Francois Truffaut

“The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.”

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Author:Trevor Nunn

“The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.”

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Author:Phil Ramone

“A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.”

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Author:Danny Boyle

“It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.”

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Author:Alan Cumming

“When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.”

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Author:Pedro Almodovar

“You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.”

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