Director Quotes
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
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Critics complained it wasn`t opera, it wasn`t a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.
Rouben Mamoulian
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other`s murder.
Werner Herzog
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson
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I`m still an atheist, thank God.
Luis Bunuel
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
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The poet doesn`t invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau
Subject: Poetry QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things
Jean Cocteau
Subject: Style QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to
George Seaton
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Photography is truth.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard
Subject: Cinema QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel
Subject: Marriage QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
George C. Marshall
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don`t dare reveal.
Elia Kazan
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau
Subject: Movies QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel
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Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it`s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people`s eyes.
John Ford
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Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow
John Ford
Subject: Delay Quotes :: Vengeance QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Subject: Poetry QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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I can only work realistically while wanting to depict something unrealistic.
Takashi Miike
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I don`t want to tell you how to do your job, but somebody has to.
David Fincher
Source: imdb.com
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No matter how many times you do it, you don`t get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
Paul Anderson
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Every medium has to be redeveloped, otherwise we would still be looking at cave paintings ... My desire to tell you stories is very strong but it`s difficult because I am looking for cinema that is non-narrative.
Peter Greenaway
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[On Badlands (1973)] I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time, like Treasure Island. I hoped this would, among other things, tak...
Terrence Malick
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[on Los Angeles] "It`s a big garage."
Jean-Luc Godard
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
Harmony Korine
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I was seen as an outsider in the beginning and then an object of great envy. All the national directors wanted to be international. They would come up to me and say, If I cast Michael Caine and Sean Connery, do you think this will make it?" There was this...
Mira Nair
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I would say that the audience in India is very important for me. Not for every film, of course, and certainly not for Hysterical Blindness, but for films that have come from my heart, like Salaam Bombay and Monsoon Wedding.
Mira Nair
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