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"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination."

"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination."

Renny Harlin, Finnish Director

Determination, Hollywood, Mind, Now

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"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

43

"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."

"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

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"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility."

"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility."

Elia Kazan, American Director

People, Responsibility

43

"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."

"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."

Woody Allen, American Director

43

"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."

"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

Interest, School

43

"I read, therefore I'm interested in writers."

"I read, therefore I'm interested in writers."

Philip Kaufman, American Director

Literature, Writers

43

"I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?"

"I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?"

John Lasseter, American Director

Love, Movies, Emotion

43

"John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort."

"John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort."

Terry Gilliam, American Director

Friendship, Effort, Friends, Years

43

"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."

"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."

Bruce Beresford, Australian Director

Art, Houses, Opera, Popular

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"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."

"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."

Richard Linklater, American Director

Faith, People, Fact

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"Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before."

"Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before."

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

Courage, Film, Force, Heroism

43

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."

John Lasseter, American Director

Art, Technology

43

"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."

"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."

Chuck Jones, American Director

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"I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country."

"I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country."

John Hughes, American Director

Nation, Country

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"There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it."

"There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it."

Sam Mendes, British Director

Family, Devil, Man, Years

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"I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original."

"I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original."

Adrian Lyne, English Director

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"I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population."

"I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population."

Jay Roach, American Director

Quality, Hope, Film, Interest

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"Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will."

"Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

History, Work, Thought, Audiences

43

"I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us."

"I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us."

Sacha Guitry, French Director

Man, Men, Women, Trying

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"I see technology as being an extension of the human body."

"I see technology as being an extension of the human body."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

Technology, Being, Body

43

"Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene."

"Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene."

Jay Roach, American Director

Joy, Laughter, Struggle

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"I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten."

"I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten."

Spike Lee, American Director

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"I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente."

"I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente."

John Sayles, American Director

Thought, Being, Style, Writer

43

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

Richard Donner, American Director

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"The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get."

"The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get."

Mike Leigh, British Director

Film, Perspective, Pressure

43

"As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate."

"As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate."

Sam Mendes, British Director

Work, America, First

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"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down ."

"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down ."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself."

"I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself."

Ray Harryhausen, American Director

Soul, People, Now

43

"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."

"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."

Federico Fellini, Italian Director

Government, Advertising, Censorship

43

"I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety."

"I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety."

Barry Levinson, American Director

Work, Anxiety, Brooks, Chance

43

"I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will."

"I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will."

Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director

43

"Designing Woman was written for the screen."

"Designing Woman was written for the screen."

Vincente Minnelli, American Director

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"I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex."

"I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex."

Robert Benton, American Director

Sex, Virtue, Law, Woman

43

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."

Steven Spielberg, American Director

Imagination, Appetite, Public, Reality

43

"I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting."

"I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting."

Gus Van Sant, American Director

Change, Time, Idea, Punk

43

"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."

"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

Cultural, American, Culture

43

"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."

"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

Opinion, Profession

43

"Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired."

"Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired."

Terry Gilliam, American Director

43

"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture."

"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture."

Walter Salles, Brazilian Director

Life, Father, Country, Culture

43

"There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood."

"There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood."

Roland Emmerich, German Director

Destruction, Force, Hollywood, Weather

43

"In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all."

"In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all."

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish Director

43

"The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better."

"The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better."

Jay Roach, American Director

43

"Technique is of less interest than character and story."

"Technique is of less interest than character and story."

William Friedkin, American Director

Character, Interest

43

"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

Barry Levinson, American Director

Actor, Beginning, Television, Writer

43

"Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'"

"Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'"

John Lasseter, American Director

Time, Trust, Film

43

"You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows."

"You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows."

Louis Malle, French Director

Work, Key, Will

43

"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."

"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Movies, Darkness

43

"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."

"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."

James Broughton, American Director

Emotional, Emotion, Order, Writing

42

"In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person."

"In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person."

Robert Evans, American Director

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