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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

3

"I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard."

"I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard."

Werner Herzog, German Director

3

"I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in."

"I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in."

Jay Roach, American Director

Love, Design, Work, Thought

3

"If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat."

"If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat."

Lloyd Kaufman, American Director

People, First, World

3

"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."

"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."

Roland Joffe, English Director

3

"Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away."

"Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away."

Derek Jarman, British Director

3

"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."

"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Character, Performance, Direction

3

"I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!"

"I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!"

George Sidney, American Director

Time, Business, Movies, Man

3

"The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff."

"The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

Fear, Communication, Study

3

"We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love."

"We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love."

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish Director

Love, Eyes, Suffering

3

"It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else."

"It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else."

Blake Edwards, American Director

Experience, Time

3

"Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun."

"Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun."

John Hughes, American Director

Work, Advertising, Day, Fun

3

"I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."

"I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

Life, Strength, Being, Cinema

3

"But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine."

"But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine."

Jerry Zucker, American Director

Comedy, Influence, Satire

3

"I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along."

"I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along."

Ang Lee, Chinese Director

Woman, Women, Gay

3

"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

3

"I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school."

"I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school."

Robert Evans, American Director

Change, Ivy, Rules, School

3

"His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible."

"His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible."

Joshua Logan, American Director

3

"I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right."

"I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right."

David R. Ellis, American Director

Time, Love, Opportunity, Learning

3

"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."

"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Film, Joy, Laughter, Word

3

"I've got Disney blood running through my veins."

"I've got Disney blood running through my veins."

John Lasseter, American Director

Blood, Disney, Running

3

"My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them."

"My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

3

"In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities."

"In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities."

John Carpenter, American Director

Character, Teenagers

3

"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs."

"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

Music, Actions, Emotions

3

"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."

"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

People, College

3

"Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film."

"Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film."

Richard Lester, English Director

Film, Day, Night, Profit

3

"History has been the history of warfare."

"History has been the history of warfare."

Godfrey Reggio, American Director

3

"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

3

"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."

"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."

Roland Joffe, English Director

Science, Scientists, Thinking

3

"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."

"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

Leadership, Business, Government, Time

3

"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood."

"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Diversity, Europe, Hollywood, States, United

3

"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

Mike Figgis, English Director

3

"I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief."

"I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief."

Vittorio De Sica, Italian Director

Life, Money, Italiian

3

"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."

"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."

Nick Park, British Director

Cultural, Americans, Charm, Cute

3

"I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life."

"I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life."

Jan de Bont, Dutch Director

Life, Mother, Control

3

"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."

"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."

Andrzej Wajda, Polish Director

Media, American, Audiences, Entertainment, Result

3

"In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales."

"In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

3

"I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it."

"I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it."

John Waters, American Director

3

"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth."

"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth."

Mike Nichols, German Director

3

"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race."

"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

Government, Force, Media, Race

3

"There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things."

"There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things."

Mike Leigh, British Director

Life, Awareness, Consciousness

3

"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."

"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."

Nicolas Roeg, English Director

Control, Marketing

3

"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."

"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."

Trevor Nunn, English Director

Decision-Making, Decision, Criticism, Dictatorship, Listening

3

"Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there."

"Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there."

Joel Coen, American Director

Movies, Mystery

3

"But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there."

"But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

3

"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings."

"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings."

Francois Truffaut, French Director

3

"The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?"

"The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?"

Neil Jordan, Irish Director

Family, Children, Company, Fantasy, Film

3

"Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite."

"Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite."

Frank Capra, American Director

Transformation, Extreme

3

"Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory."

"Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory."

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

Time, People, Deep, Memory

3

"You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession."

"You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession."

John Huston, American Director

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