Directing Film Quotes

I really, really love directing films.

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

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

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

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

I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.