Film Director Quotes Part 2

I think that film tends to penetrate the actor and distill the inherent quality in them that no matter what character they're playing, the film registers that quality that's sort of their essence, their soul.
--Rebecca Miller

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
--Anthony Minghella

Somebody said, if you give a script to five different famous directors, you'd get five different pictures. And I believe that.
--Vincente Minnelli

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.
--Jim Mitchell

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
--Errol Morris

The only safe thing is to take a chance.
--Mike Nichols

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
--Christopher Nolan

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!
--Phillip Noyce

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
--Trevor Nunn

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
--Brian De Palma

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
--Nick Park

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
--Alan Parker

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
--Alexander Payne

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
--Sam Peckinpah

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.
--Wolfgang Petersen

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
--Sydney Pollack

When you make the audience the critic, though, when you start asking them to speak about the film, all these weird moments that are way out of the ordinary, that we do a lot of in our pictures, they don't hold up to critical analysis from an untrained professional critic very well.
--Sam Raimi

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.
--Godfrey Reggio

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
--Karel Reisz

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

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!
--Guy Ritchie

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
--Jay Roach

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
--Robert Rodriguez

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
--Nicolas Roeg

A good character is always slightly unexpected, or a character that makes a turn or where you can see the character arc and watch he/she develop... not obvious... obviously a good guy or bad guy.
--George A. Romero

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.
--Alan Rudolph

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
--Gus Van Sant

Each time you come away, you know, you learn something. You get better at your craft.
--John Sayles

Humor of a sort is never very far away, I hope, because I like to look at things with an amused eye, because that is what I am.
--John Schlesinger

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

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
--Martin Scorsese

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

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
--Tony Scott

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
--M. Night Shyamalan

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

Anyone that comes from any medium, whether it they come off the bus to Hollywood for the first time or they're established musicians, if they come to act, they have to have respect for the craft
--John Singleton

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.
--Steven Soderbergh

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
--Steven Spielberg

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
--Oliver Stone

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
--Quentin Tarantino

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
--Guillermo del Toro

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.
--Peter Weir

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
--Billy Wilder

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.
--Robert Zemeckis

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