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"Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war."

"Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war."

Robert Greenwald, American Director

War, People, Credibility, Sense

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"I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition."

"I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition."

Mark Rydell, American Director

Competition, Weekend

9

"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."

"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."

Ken Burns, American Director

Music, Content, Film

9

"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent."

"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent."

Patrice Leconte, French Director

9

"And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves."

"And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves."

Bill Condon, American Director

9

"Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements."

"Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements."

D. W. Griffith, American Director

Act, Acting, Now, Old

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"People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at."

"People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at."

Ridley Scott, British Director

God, People, Attention, Play

9

"To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find."

"To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find."

John McTiernan, American Director

Creativity, Ideas, Provocative

9

"One of the things I love about cinema is the range."

"One of the things I love about cinema is the range."

Mike Figgis, English Director

9

"It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people."

"It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

People, Actors, Habits, Wrong

9

"It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy."

"It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Control, Actors, Managers

9

"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

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"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie."

"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie."

Sam Mendes, British Director

Relationship, Actors, Relationships, Silence, Words

9

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

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

Richard King, American Director

9

"I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie."

"I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie."

Brian De Palma, American Director

9

"There has been a change in attitude, though."

"There has been a change in attitude, though."

Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director

Attitude, Change

9

"I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much."

"I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much."

Alexander Payne, American Director

Love, Movies, Fact

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"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."

"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

Darkness, Light

9

"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."

"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

Business, Change, Time

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"I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge."

"I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge."

Michael Ritchie, American Director

9

"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Ability, Guitar, Play

9

"We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience."

"We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

Love, Thought, Dad, Comedy

9

"When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out."

"When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out."

Nick Park, British Director

People, America, American, First

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"I love punk rock, but I also love metal."

"I love punk rock, but I also love metal."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

9

"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

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"I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money."

"I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money."

George A. Romero, American Director

9

"Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict."

"Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict."

Ridley Scott, British Director

Politics, Conflict

9

"Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up."

"Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

Family, Father, Son, Man

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"So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since."

"So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since."

Alex Cox, British Director

Experience, Beginning

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"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."

"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."

Michael Ritchie, American Director

9

"Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer."

"Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer."

Spike Lee, American Director

Time, Film, Photography, Production

9

"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me."

"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me."

John Sayles, American Director

Movies, Time, People, Books

9

"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you."

"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you."

Marcel Carne, French Director

People, Respect

9

"We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle."

"We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle."

Allan Carr, British Director

Battle, First, Meeting, Yesterday

9

"The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out."

"The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Love, Work, Rules, Skill

9

"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."

"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Life, Music, People, Hearing

9

"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."

"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."

George A. Romero, American Director

9

"I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice."

"I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Art, Hearing, Voice

9

"I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form."

"I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Art, Entertainment, Film, Popular

9

"I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there."

"I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there."

Jay Roach, American Director

Love, Film, Saying, Will

9

"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego."

"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

Time, People, Culture, Ego

9

"If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light."

"If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light."

Tobe Hooper, American Director

Perspective, First, Light

9

"For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful."

"For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful."

Michael Apted, British Director

Change, Technology, Film

9

"I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films."

"I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films."

Ted Kotcheff, Canadian Director

Work, Freedom, Television

9

"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

9

"You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all."

"You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all."

Sam Mendes, British Director

9

"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception."

"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

Success, Mother, Perception, Awards

9

"The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians."

"The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians."

David Zucker, American Director

Time, Comedians, Nothing, Want

9

"My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more."

"My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

Family, Father, Medicine

9

"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

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