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"The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it."

"The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it."

Woody Allen, American Director

Love, Sex, Emotion, Relationship

41

"A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living."

"A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living."

James Broughton, American Director

Life, Living, Worth

41

"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."

"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."

Chris Wedge, American Director

41

"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."

"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

40

"Todd and I have a very complementary working style ."

"Todd and I have a very complementary working style ."

Sam Wood, American Director

40

"Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it."

"Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it."

Spike Lee, American Director

History, Music, America, Country

40

"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

40

"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."

"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

40

"I do a pretty good job at casting actually."

"I do a pretty good job at casting actually."

Ridley Scott, British Director

40

"A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know."

"A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know."

Oliver Stone, American Director

Beauty, Work, Film, Will

40

"Music stops you from thinking."

"Music stops you from thinking."

Peter Weir, Australian Director

Music, Thinking

40

"I have done some short pieces that are not horror."

"I have done some short pieces that are not horror."

Richard King, American Director

40

"It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical."

"It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

Home, Success, Film, Want

40

"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel."

"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel."

Ken Burns, American Director

Music, Emotions, End

40

"It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character."

"It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character."

Sam Mendes, British Director

Time, Character, Film, Right

40

"Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done."

"Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

40

"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."

"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."

Alain Resnais, French Director

Creativity, Idea, Film

40

"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them."

"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them."

Godfrey Reggio, American Director

Experience, People, Cause, Film

40

"The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra."

"The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra."

Roland Joffe, English Director

Work, Actor, Trying

40

"It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today."

"It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today."

Michael Apted, British Director

Imagination, Talent, Skill, Today

40

"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."

"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."

Ken Burns, American Director

Genius, Country, Jazz

40

"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

40

"This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time."

"This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

Man, Men, Time, Winning, Choice

40

"We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important."

"We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important."

David Zucker, American Director

40

"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

Ken Burns, American Director

Lifestyle, Jazz

40

"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

Actor, Actors, Film, Space

40

"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

40

"He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work."

"He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work."

Ed Wood, American Director

40

"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful."

"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful."

Spike Lee, American Director

Mistake, Faults, Film

40

"I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine."

"I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine."

Bill Condon, American Director

40

"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

40

"With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV."

"With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV."

Andrzej Wajda, Polish Director

Media, Audiences

40

"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

40

"Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice."

"Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

Music, Beginning

40

"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

40

"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

40

"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

40

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

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

Mike Figgis, English Director

40

"Fight the power that be. Fight the power."

"Fight the power that be. Fight the power."

Spike Lee, American Director

40

"Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time."

"Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time."

David Fincher, American Director

40

"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

40

"Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege."

"Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege."

Mark Rydell, American Director

Movies, Career, Privilege, Stars

40

"I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one."

"I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

Family, Children, Will

40

"Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television."

"Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television."

Michael Apted, British Director

Creativity, Idea, Television

40

"I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one."

"I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one."

David Zucker, American Director

Movies, Now, Want

40

"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."

"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."

James Broughton, American Director

Work, Cinema, Theater

40

"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later."

"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later."

Elia Kazan, American Director

40

"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose."

"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Poetry, Acting, Direction, Prose

40

"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."

"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."

Barry Levinson, American Director

Work, Acting, School, Years

40

"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."

"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

40

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