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"Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will."

"Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

Movies, Will, Years

31

"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."

"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."

Vincente Minnelli, American Director

31

"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

31

"Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety."

"Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety."

Walter Lang, American Director

Time, God, Creation, Potential

31

"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

31

"No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not."

"No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not."

John Milius, American Director

Writing, Writer

31

"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

31

"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."

"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."

Brian De Palma, American Director

31

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."

Ken Burns, American Director

31

"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

31

"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

31

"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

31

"IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film."

"IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film."

Douglas Trumbull, American Director

Design, Computer, Film

31

"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

31

"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children."

"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children."

Roman Polanski, French Director

Family, Children, Passion

31

"I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time."

"I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time."

Sam Mendes, British Director

Time, Fact, First, Writer

31

"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

31

"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."

"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."

Richard Donner, American Director

31

"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

31

"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

31

"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

31

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

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

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

31

"They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children."

"They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children."

Philip Kaufman, American Director

Movies, Children, Sexuality, Violence

31

"When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white."

"When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white."

Sam Mendes, British Director

31

"I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle."

"I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle."

Neil LaBute, American Director

Behavior, Extremes

31

"We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience."

"We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience."

Michael Bay, American Director

Movies, People, Joy, Theater

31

"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

31

"The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself."

"The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

Music, Attention, Job, Sense

31

"Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors."

"Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors."

Paul Schrader, American Director

Creativity, Artists, Therapy, Will

31

"There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important."

"There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important."

Peter Farrelly, American Director

31

"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

31

"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

31

"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

31

"I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away."

"I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away."

John Hughes, American Director

Movies, End, First, Hate

31

"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."

"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Art, Performance, Film, Theatre

31

"Time puts things in proper perspective."

"Time puts things in proper perspective."

Cameron Crowe, American Director

Time, Perspective

31

"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

31

"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

31

"I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say."

"I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say."

Alex Cox, British Director

31

"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

31

"I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special."

"I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special."

Terry Zwigoff, American Director

31

"I think Jews are the smartest people in the world."

"I think Jews are the smartest people in the world."

Rob Reiner, American Director

31

"My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot."

"My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Sacrifice, Character, Interest, Key

31

"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"

"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"

David Zucker, American Director

31

"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

31

"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

31

"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them."

"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them."

Guy Ritchie, British Director

31

"Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in."

"Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in."

David Zucker, American Director

Thought, Idea, Worth

31

"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."

"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."

Edward Zwick, American Director

31

"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."

"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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