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"I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos."

"I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos."

Richard King, American Director

18

"When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins."

"When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Judgment, Justice, Vengeance

18

"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."

"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

18

"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."

"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."

David Fincher, American Director

18

"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."

"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."

Guy Ritchie, British Director

18

"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."

"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."

Atom Egoyan, Canadian Director

Expectation, Film, Trying, Will

18

"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."

"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Thought, People

18

"When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York."

"When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York."

Milos Forman, Czechoslovakian Director

Time, First, States, United

18

"It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more."

"It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more."

Michael Bay, American Director

People, Being, Relax, World

18

"In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children."

"In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children."

Robert Benton, American Director

Age, People, America, Being

18

"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."

"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."

Ernst Lubitsch, German Director

18

"The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce."

"The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce."

Tobe Hooper, American Director

Living, London, Production

18

"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."

"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."

Jacques Rivette, French Director

18

"To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late."

"To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late."

Ang Lee, Chinese Director

Time, Feelings, America, Conservative

18

"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."

"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."

Bill Condon, American Director

Actor, Actors, Being, Needs

18

"The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog."

"The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

Time, Effort, Example

18

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."

Woody Allen, American Director

Life, Art, Television

18

"We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past."

"We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past."

Nick Park, British Director

18

"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."

"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."

Bille August, Danish Director

Movies, Film, Television

18

"ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that."

"ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

18

"Silence moves faster when it's going backward."

"Silence moves faster when it's going backward."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

18

"The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile."

Sacha Guitry, French Director

18

"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."

"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Experience, Acting, Now

18

"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."

"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

18

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Art, Marriage, Unconscious

18

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Woody Allen, American Director

Illusion, Nothing

18

"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."

"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."

Samuel Fuller, American Director

Commonsense, Intellectuals

18

"To me, America is just another market."

"To me, America is just another market."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

Market, America

18

"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."

"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."

Luis Bunuel, Mexican Director

18

"Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today."

"Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today."

Uwe Boll, German Director

Movies, Film, Horror, Today

18

"It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful."

"It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful."

Billy Wilder, American Director

18

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

Woody Allen, American Director

Money, Financial, Poverty

18

"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame."

"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame."

Julie Taymor, American Director

Movies, Nature, Deep, Man

18

"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"

"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"

Joel Coen, American Director

18

"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."

"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."

Joel Coen, American Director

18

"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."

"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."

Billy Wilder, American Director

Work, Trying, Will

18

"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."

"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Success, Successful

18

"With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them."

"With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them."

Walter Lang, American Director

History, God, People, Knowledge

18

"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."

"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

Science, Culture

18

"I learn new things all the time."

"I learn new things all the time."

Vincente Minnelli, American Director

18

"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."

"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."

Lars von Trier, Danish Director

Cinema, Thinking

18

"It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies."

"It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies."

Mike Leigh, British Director

Movies, Obsession

18

"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."

"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."

Karel Reisz, Czechoslovakian Director

Conformity, Desire

18

"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are."

"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are."

Werner Herzog, German Director

Dream, Dreams, Technology, Years

18

"You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually."

"You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually."

John Milius, American Director

People, Judgment, Nothing

18

"'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want."

"'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want."

George Lucas, American Director

Inspirational, People, Fun, Want

18

"A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it."

"A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it."

Michael Bay, American Director

Love, Pressure, Want

18

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

Stanley Kubrick, American Director

18

"Cinema was my rite of passage."

"Cinema was my rite of passage."

John Singleton, American Director

18

"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."

"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

18

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