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"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love."

"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love."

Stanley Kubrick, American Director

Love, Mistake, Pity

11

"Fear has many faces."

"Fear has many faces."

Nicolas Roeg, English Director

11

"Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down."

"Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down."

David McNally, American Director

Commitment, Enemy, Press, Promise

11

"When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those."

"When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those."

Bill Condon, American Director

Woman, Women, Gay, Years

11

"Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?"

"Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish Director

Equality, People, Liberty, Want

11

"When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them."

"When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them."

Michael Winterbottom, British Director

11

"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

American, America, Country, Culture

11

"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."

"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."

Chuck Jones, American Director

11

"I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement."

"I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

Education, Discouragement, Teachers

11

"I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films."

"I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films."

Julie Taymor, American Director

People, Performance, Actors, Talk

11

"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."

"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."

Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director

Movies, Horror, Silence, Today

11

"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

11

"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."

"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."

Roland Joffe, English Director

11

"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."

"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."

Trevor Nunn, English Director

Education, Winning, First, Parents

11

"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

11

"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."

"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."

Woody Allen, American Director

Death, Experience

11

"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier."

"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier."

Joel Coen, American Director

11

"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."

"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

11

"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."

"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."

Oliver Stone, American Director

11

"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors."

"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors."

Trevor Nunn, English Director

Actor, Actors, Company, Old

11

"I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on."

"I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on."

Victor Salva, American Director

11

"The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it."

"The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it."

Matthew Bright, American Director

Fun, Funny, Fantasy, Nothing, Religious

11

"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."

"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Animals, Individuality

11

"What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything."

"What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything."

Robert Rodriguez, American Director

Love, Technology, Art, Idea

11

"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

11

"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

11

"If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy."

"If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy."

Tim Burton, American Director

Choice, Meeting

11

"Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money."

"Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money."

John Sayles, American Director

Money, Cleverness

11

"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

11

"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

11

"Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it."

"Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

Film, Fun, Irony

11

"I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be."

"I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

Time, Thought, Content, Obscurity

11

"A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible."

"A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

Man, Men, Woman

11

"I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on."

"I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

Love, Fun, Want

11

"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."

"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."

John Grierson, British Director

Society, Loss, Planning

11

"Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it."

"Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it."

Michael Apted, British Director

History, Country, English

11

"Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it."

"Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it."

Morgan Spurlock, American Director

11

"If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time."

"If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

11

"Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign."

"Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign."

David Zucker, American Director

Business, Experience, People, Luck

11

"It was lights, camera, inaction."

"It was lights, camera, inaction."

Terry Gilliam, American Director

Politics, Inaction

11

"Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion."

"Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion."

Bill Condon, American Director

Religion, Sex, Culture, Study

11

"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."

"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."

Jan de Bont, Dutch Director

11

"I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie."

"I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie."

Louis Malle, French Director

11

"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

11

"If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country."

"If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country."

Robert Greenwald, American Director

People, Country, Difference, Effort

11

"Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing."

"Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing."

James Broughton, American Director

Being, Illusion, Nothing, Silence

11

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."

Woody Allen, American Director

11

"There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color."

"There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

Money, People, Hate

11

"Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons."

"Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

Art, Animation, Cartoons

11

"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

Robert Benton, American Director

Film, Right, Want

11

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