Directors Quotes - Page 4

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

The best director is the one you don't see.

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.

When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.