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“There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.”

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Author:Frank Capra

“I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.”

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Author:Lars von Trier

“There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.”

“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

“You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.”

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Author:Peter Bogdanovich

“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”

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Author:Samuel Fuller

“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.”

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Author:Ridley Scott

“Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.”

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Author:John Milius

“Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.”

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Author:Robert Doisneau

“There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.”

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Author:Edward Zwick

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

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Author:Kathryn Bigelow

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

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“People have forgotten how to tell a story.”

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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

“I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.”

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Author:Peter Criss

“I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me.”

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Author:Roman Coppola

“I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino