Film director Quotes

“Director (business)”

“All I Need to Make a Comedy is a Park, a Policeman and a Pretty Girl.”

“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies”

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

“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.””

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“A story [in a film] should have a beginning, a middle and an end… but not necessarily in that order.”

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“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. A comedy is life with the dull bits cut out and the wit and humour maximised.”

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

“Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.”

“In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.”

“In France I am an autier
In England, I’m a horror movie director.
In Germany, I’m a filmmaker.
In the US, I’m a bum.”

“Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.”

“People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.”

“I think it’s important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you’ve got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.”

“I think it’s 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.”

“When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can’t really compete on a studio level. That's part of the reason I wanted to produce this film – Traveller.”

“I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.”

“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.”