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"Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you."

"Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you."

Raoul Walsh, American Director

15

"I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful."

"I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful."

David Zucker, American Director

Fun, Funny, Time, People, Successful

15

"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."

"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

15

"I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me."

"I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me."

John Hughes, American Director

Time, Actors, Fame

15

"Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things."

"Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things."

Barry Levinson, American Director

Actor, Coach, States, United

15

"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."

"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."

Agnes Varda, French Director

15

"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."

"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

15

"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."

"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian Director

15

"To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable."

"To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Party, Police, State, Taste

15

"Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions."

"Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions."

Adrian Lyne, English Director

Emotional, Emotions, Jealousy, Sexuality

15

"I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece."

"I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece."

Tobe Hooper, American Director

15

"Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling."

"Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling."

John Badham, British Director

Emotional, Feeling, May

15

"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."

"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."

Bruce Beresford, Australian Director

15

"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."

"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."

Walter Salles, Brazilian Director

15

"Memories are doing funny things to us."

"Memories are doing funny things to us."

Milos Forman, Czechoslovakian Director

Fun, Funny, Memories

15

"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

Lee Strasberg, American Director

Actor, Feeling, Prose

15

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."

Oliver Stone, American Director

People, Liberalism

15

"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."

"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."

Federico Fellini, Italian Director

15

"Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now."

"Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now."

James Broughton, American Director

Existence, Eternity, Future, Now, Past

15

"The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead."

"The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead."

David Lynch, American Director

Creativity, Ideas

15

"Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out."

"Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out."

Renny Harlin, Finnish Director

Money, Cards, Credit

15

"If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth."

"If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Character design, Baby, Want

15

"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema."

"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Cinema, Film, Horror, Nothing

15

"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."

"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

Science, Care, English, Fiction

15

"Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked."

"Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked."

Alex Cox, British Director

Pleasure, Projects, Saying

15

"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction."

"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction."

Martin Scorsese, American Director

History, Love, Destruction

15

"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before."

"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before."

Douglas Trumbull, American Director

Film, Evolution, Space

15

"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy."

"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

Management, Manager, Old, Theatre

15

"Adversity is a stimulus."

"Adversity is a stimulus."

James Broughton, American Director

15

"Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre."

"Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre."

Nicolas Roeg, English Director

Movies, Books, Theatre

15

"It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well."

"It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well."

Andrzej Wajda, Polish Director

15

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Art, Artist, Order

15

"If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction."

"If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Elizabeth, Audiences, Fiction, Words

15

"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."

"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."

Douglas Sirk, German Director

Art, Time, Marxism

15

"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures."

"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures."

Martin Scorsese, American Director

15

"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."

"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."

Robert Evans, American Director

Creativity, Principles, Will

15

"I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values."

"I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values."

Adrian Lyne, English Director

Life, Values, American

15

"Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American."

"Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American."

Renny Harlin, Finnish Director

Action, Actors, American, English

15

"I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does."

"I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Love, Character, Focus, Mistakes

15

"Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him."

"Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him."

Wolfgang Petersen, German Director

Entertainment, Day, Sense

15

"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level."

"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level."

Atom Egoyan, Canadian Director

Trust, Work, Energy, Will

15

"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."

"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."

Billy Wilder, American Director

15

"If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story."

"If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story."

John Lasseter, American Director

Storytelling, Animation, Children, Computer, Importance

15

"Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique."

"Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique."

Bill Condon, American Director

Creativity, Idea, Sexuality, Study

15

"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."

"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

Experience, School, World

15

"I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves."

"I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves."

Jay Roach, American Director

Love, People, Control, Addiction

15

"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Life, Design, Ideas, Bizarre

15

"I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat."

"I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Dieting, Diet, Fish

15

"Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry."

"Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry."

Richard King, American Director

15

"I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake."

"I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Mistake, Film, Vacation

15

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