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“It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.”

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Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.”

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Author:Will Self

“You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.”

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Author:Michel Gondry

“What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.”

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Author:Grant Heslov

“You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.”

“If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.”

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Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.”

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Author:Quincy Jones

“I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.”

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Author:Ed Harris

“I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.”

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Author:Anthony Minghella

“I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.”

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Author:Federico Fellini

“I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.”

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Author:Matt Barr

“To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson