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"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused."

"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

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"I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years."

"I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years."

Tobe Hooper, American Director

Internet, Living, Years

11

"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

11

"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."

"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

Fiction, Reality

11

"It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't."

"It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

11

"I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much."

"I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

11

"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence."

"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

Movies, Music, First, Play

11

"I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else."

"I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else."

Bryan Singer, American Director

Being, Now, World

11

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated."

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated."

Jean-Luc Godard, French Director

Body, Content, Style

11

"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."

"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."

Ken Burns, American Director

Work, Blind, Years

11

"My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them."

"My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

11

"What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have."

"What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have."

David Zucker, American Director

11

"People will justify whatever for a good cause."

"People will justify whatever for a good cause."

Julie Taymor, American Director

People, Cause, Will

11

"Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it."

"Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it."

Richard Lester, English Director

Music, Day, Nervousness, Night

11

"I never had any desire to become a well-known actress."

"I never had any desire to become a well-known actress."

Rebecca Miller, American Director

11

"When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism."

"When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism."

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

Action, Conscience, Film, Realism

11

"You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie."

"You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Art, Work, Play

11

"Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen."

"Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen."

Bryan Singer, American Director

Thought, Trying, Years

11

"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."

"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Creativity, Idea, Man, Woman

11

"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."

"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

11

"I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin."

"I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin."

Tobe Hooper, American Director

Family, Mother, People, Idea, Baby

11

"When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you."

"When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you."

Michael Winterbottom, British Director

11

"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."

"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."

Ken Burns, American Director

11

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."

Robert Bresson, French Director

Life, Film, First, Flowers

11

"It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do."

"It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do."

Neil Jordan, Irish Director

Work, Film, Hollywood, Question

11

"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game."

"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game."

Blake Edwards, American Director

Science, Facts, Investigation, Nothing

11

"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."

"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."

Douglas Sirk, German Director

11

"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."

"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."

Dino De Laurentiis, Italian Director

11

"Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off."

"Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off."

Richard King, American Director

Creativity, Ideas, Censorship, May, Opinion

11

"If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man."

"If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man."

Alexander Kluge, German Director

Work, Man, Today

11

"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together."

"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together."

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian Director

Work, Women, Community, Cooperation

11

"There's an electrical thing about movies."

"There's an electrical thing about movies."

Oliver Stone, American Director

11

"I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean."

"I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean."

John Sayles, American Director

11

"The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world."

"The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world."

Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian Director

11

"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

Julie Taymor, American Director

Film, Opera, Self, Years

11

"There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again."

"There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again."

M. Night Shyamalan, American Director

Faith, Brother, Eyes, Losing

11

"The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride."

"The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride."

Vincente Minnelli, American Director

Family, Father, Surrealism

11

"I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too."

"I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too."

Spike Lee, American Director

11

"Time has changed and now is the age of spending."

"Time has changed and now is the age of spending."

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

11

"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."

"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."

Roland Joffe, English Director

Performance, Right

11

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

Stanley Kubrick, American Director

Nation, Nations

11

"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Actor, Actors, Respect, Sense

11

"I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?"

"I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?"

Ernst Lubitsch, German Director

11

"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."

"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."

Michael Apted, British Director

11

"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."

"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

11

"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."

"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

11

"I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist."

"I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist."

David Lean, British Director

11

"Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring."

"Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

Sex, People, Arguments, Lies

11

"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."

"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Reading, Death, Writer

11

"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."

"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Film, Memory, Talking

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