Movie Director Quotes (page 2)

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• bad day
• school
• education

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. Paul Thomas Anderson

• art
• work
• movie

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters. Arthur C. Clarke

• movie
• color
• painting

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. Viggo Mortensen

• movie
• evening
• attention

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth. Jason Mewes

• movie
• new york
• universe

I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them. Jason Mewes

• great
• movie
• end

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. Sam Mendes

• movie
• understanding
• job

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story. Cuba Gooding, Jr.

• moving
• movie
• lining

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies. Terry Gilliam

• movie
• personality
• choices

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. John Frankenheimer

• movie
• great
• greatness

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies. John Frankenheimer

• movie
• less
• found

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has. John Frankenheimer

• thinking
• busy
• movie

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business. John Frankenheimer

• love
• movie
• listen

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. Jodie Foster

• movie
• feeling
• character

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie. David Fincher

• decision making
• real
• mind

Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick. Bobby Farrelly