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"We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision."

"We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision."

Ed Wood, American Director

Vision, Artist, Compromise, Want

41

"My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images."

"My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images."

James Broughton, American Director

41

"I love mixing amateurs and professionals."

"I love mixing amateurs and professionals."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Love, Professionals

41

"We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us."

"We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us."

Bill Condon, American Director

41

"Every ten years there is a new generation of actors."

"Every ten years there is a new generation of actors."

Barbet Schroeder, French Director

Actor, Actors, Years

41

"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."

"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Nation, Country

41

"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

41

"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."

"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."

Joel Coen, American Director

41

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

41

"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."

"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."

Joel Coen, American Director

41

"I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences."

"I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

Age, People, Consequences, Games

41

"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."

"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."

Roman Polanski, French Director

People, Violence

41

"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."

"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."

Douglas Sirk, German Director

Life, Time, People, Idea

41

"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."

"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."

David O. Russell, American Director

41

"It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen."

"It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

Change, Being, Punk

41

"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

Alain Resnais, French Director

41

"I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker."

"I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

Night, Office, Sleep

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"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

Trevor Nunn, English Director

Actor, Feeling, Shakespeare

41

"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."

"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."

Stanley Kubrick, American Director

41

"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."

"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."

Joel Coen, American Director

Work, People, Arguments, Questions

41

"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."

"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."

Ken Burns, American Director

Society, America, Jazz

41

"So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested."

"So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested."

Terry Zwigoff, American Director

Family, Mother, Film, Talk, Want

41

"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."

"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."

David Fincher, American Director

41

"For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would."

"For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Leadership, Charisma, Example, Man, President

41

"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

41

"Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers."

"Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

Career, Careers, Dogs, Irish, Talking

41

"When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea."

"When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Creativity, Idea, Film

41

"Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home."

"Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home."

Cameron Crowe, American Director

Home, Music, Challenge, Song

41

"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder."

"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

41

"Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you."

"Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you."

Raoul Walsh, American Director

41

"The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck."

"The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck."

Roland Joffe, English Director

41

"I believe in God, absolutely."

"I believe in God, absolutely."

Antoine Fuqua, American Director

41

"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."

"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."

Vincente Minnelli, American Director

41

"I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie."

"I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

Character, Fiction, Study, Trying

41

"A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies."

"A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies."

John Frankenheimer, American Director

People, Now, Office, Old

41

"I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office."

"I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office."

Blake Edwards, American Director

41

"I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas."

"I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas."

Nick Park, British Director

Home, Ideas, Thinking

41

"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."

"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

41

"A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect."

"A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect."

Barry Levinson, American Director

41

"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again."

"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again."

Jean Renoir, French Director

41

"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."

"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."

Richard Donner, American Director

Opportunity, First

41

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."

Oliver Stone, American Director

People, Liberalism

41

"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be."

"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be."

James Broughton, American Director

41

"In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny."

"In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

Fun, Funny, Comedy

41

"When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century."

"When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

41

"It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there."

"It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there."

Roland Emmerich, German Director

41

"My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it."

"My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it."

James Broughton, American Director

Love, Life, Necessity, Poems

41

"Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize."

"Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize."

Oliver Stone, American Director

People, Character, First

41

"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."

"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."

Alain Resnais, French Director

41

"To do the writing, I have to have time to do research."

"To do the writing, I have to have time to do research."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Time, Research, Writing

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