I am not a fortune teller. I would like to be judged for my work, and not for my life. If there is any possibility of changing your destiny, it may be only in your creative life, certainly not in your life, period.
Roman Polanski
There was no way to stop what was going to happen. We just reached the point where all that the three of us really wanted to do was hold up a bank. And besides, standing there with a gun, cleaning out a teller`s cage - that`s about as fuckin` honest as yo...
Mark Frechette
The director is the teller of the film, the director tells the movie, like you would tell a story, except in this case you`re telling a movie.
Sydney Pollack
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson