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"I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize."

"I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize."

Adrian Lyne, English Director

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"When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience."

"When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience."

Jay Roach, American Director

Film, First, Thinking, Want

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"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

Billy Wilder, American Director

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"I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all."

"I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

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"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back."

"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

Faith, Money, People, Want

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"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."

"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."

Joel Coen, American Director

Age, Education, Mother, Father

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"People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct."

"People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct."

Phillip Noyce, Australian Director

Family, Funny, People, Instinct

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"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."

"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."

Randal Kleiser, American Director

Entertainment, Baby

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"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."

"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."

Roland Joffe, English Director

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"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie."

"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

Friendship, Friends, Theater

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"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego."

"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

Time, People, Culture, Ego

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"If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light."

"If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light."

Tobe Hooper, American Director

Perspective, First, Light

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"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

Billy Wilder, American Director

Trust, Instinct, Mistakes

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"With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic."

"With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic."

Richard Donner, American Director

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"I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life."

"I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Home, Life, Bed, Hollywood

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"Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along."

"Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along."

Antoine Fuqua, American Director

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"So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."

"So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."

Adrian Lyne, English Director

Creativity, Ideas, Will

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"I'm not really interested in making money."

"I'm not really interested in making money."

Steven Spielberg, American Director

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"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."

"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."

Ernst Lubitsch, German Director

Talent, Man, Name, Stars

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"Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department."

"Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department."

Vincente Minnelli, American Director

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"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."

"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."

Wim Wenders, German Director

Music, Entertainment, Luxury, World

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"You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home."

"You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home."

Allan Carr, British Director

Home, Heroes, Meeting, Old

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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

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"Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time."

"Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time."

Barry Levinson, American Director

Time, Sun, Writer

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"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."

"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."

Federico Fellini, Italian Director

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"It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand."

"It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand."

Mark Rydell, American Director

Man, Men, Day, Heroes, Hollywood

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"We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable."

"We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable."

Nick Park, British Director

Computer, Computers, World

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"You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics."

"You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics."

John Milius, American Director

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"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."

"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

Art, People, Film, Numbers

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"There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy."

"There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy."

Robert Evans, American Director

Comedy, Nothing

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"Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies."

"Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies."

David R. Ellis, American Director

Advertising, Company, Help

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"I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation."

"I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Creativity, Bugs

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"Violence is not funny."

"Violence is not funny."

William Friedkin, American Director

Fun, Funny, Violence

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"Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined."

"Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined."

Chris Marker, French Director

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"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."

"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Nature, Experience, Reading

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"We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them."

"We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them."

Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Director

Age, Movies, Rights

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"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."

"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."

Ted Demme, American Director

Movies, Film, Old

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"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing."

"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing."

Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director

People, Hollywood, Nothing

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"You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent."

"You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent."

Renny Harlin, Finnish Director

Experience, Imagination, Time, Talent

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"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

Ang Lee, Chinese Director

Film, Americans, Population, World

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"I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable."

"I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

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"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."

"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

Creativity, Ideas, Control, Actor, Collaboration

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"Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out."

"Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out."

Tobe Hooper, American Director

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"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."

"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."

Terry Gilliam, American Director

Nation, Country

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"I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality."

"I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality."

Barbet Schroeder, French Director

Politics, Homosexuality

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"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."

"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."

John Huston, American Director

Film, Day, Loneliness, World

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"Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them."

"Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them."

John Lasseter, American Director

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"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

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"I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it."

"I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it."

Michael Ritchie, American Director

Media, Study, Theater, Training

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"And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used."

"And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used."

Ted Demme, American Director

Movies, Time, Colors, Favorite

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