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"The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'"

"The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'"

Terence Fisher, British Director

God, First, Will

8

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

Oliver Stone, American Director

Research, Responsibility, Right, Will

8

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

8

"I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice."

"I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice."

Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director

8

"What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case."

"What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Film, Potential

8

"I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one."

"I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one."

Jay Roach, American Director

8

"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

8

"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."

"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."

Woody Allen, American Director

Depression, Suicide

8

"You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor."

"You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor."

John Boorman, British Director

8

"Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box."

"Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box."

Roland Joffe, English Director

Ability, Culture, Mind

8

"I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work."

"I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work."

Joel Coen, American Director

Work, Day, Film

8

"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."

"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Movies, Childhood, Weekend

8

"Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself."

"Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself."

Peter Farrelly, American Director

8

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."

Michael Ritchie, American Director

Theatre, Audiences, Style, Taste, Theater

8

"But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about."

"But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about."

Alexander Payne, American Director

Nation, Country

8

"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

8

"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

Alain Resnais, French Director

Movies, Purpose, Luck

8

"With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited."

"With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited."

Tom Hooper, British Director

Leadership, Leader, Anxiety, Connection, Project

8

"We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything."

"We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything."

Jay Roach, American Director

People, Writing

8

"Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist."

"Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist."

Cameron Crowe, American Director

Age, Love, Movies, Music

8

"I believe in God, absolutely."

"I believe in God, absolutely."

Antoine Fuqua, American Director

8

"I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct."

"I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct."

Larry Buchanan, American Director

8

"I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters."

"I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters."

Dino De Laurentiis, Italian Director

Life, Cinema, Moments, Privilege

8

"It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself."

"It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself."

Sam Mendes, British Director

Actor, Day, Risk

8

"Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works."

"Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works."

Frederick Wiseman, American Director

Content, Mind, World

8

"They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase."

"They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase."

David R. Ellis, American Director

Car, Actor, Right

8

"Making movies is all about instinct."

"Making movies is all about instinct."

Dino De Laurentiis, Italian Director

Movies, Instinct

8

"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."

"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."

Neil LaBute, American Director

8

"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."

"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."

Tim Burton, American Director

8

"I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony."

"I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony."

Leni Riefenstahl, German Director

Beauty, Harmony, Living

8

"Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night."

"Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night."

Jim Mitchell, American Director

Sports, Fans, May, Night

8

"I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire."

"I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire."

Antoine Fuqua, American Director

8

"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

8

"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."

"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."

John Sayles, American Director

Creativity, Idea, Choices, Right

8

"I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another."

"I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another."

Sam Raimi, American Director

8

"If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant."

"If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant."

Trevor Nunn, English Director

Creativity, Ideas, Actors, Criticism

8

"I brought the film like a flower to the world."

"I brought the film like a flower to the world."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

8

"When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things."

"When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things."

Ken Burns, American Director

8

"He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists."

"He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists."

Michael Apted, British Director

Money, Time, Artists, Trying

8

"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

8

"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

8

"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad."

"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad."

Bill Forsyth, Scottish Director

Family, Sisters

8

"We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now."

"We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now."

Julie Taymor, American Director

Writing, English, Now, Old, Right

8

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."

Woody Allen, American Director

8

"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously."

"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously."

Nicolas Roeg, English Director

Society, God, Struggle

8

"I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own."

"I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own."

Patrice Leconte, French Director

8

"But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me."

"But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me."

Philip Kaufman, American Director

Movies, Canada, Danger

8

"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

Education, First, Law, Study

8

"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."

"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."

David R. Ellis, American Director

Film, Boats, Racing

8

"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

Douglas Sirk, German Director

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