"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
"Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something."
Ed Wood
Ed Wood
"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."
Kenneth Ange
Kenneth Ange
"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow
"As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail."
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes
"A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself."
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
"Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good."
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
"There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone."
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes
"I've made several films that haven't been shown."
Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger
"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."
JJean-Luc Godard
JJean-Luc Godard
"Casting is 65 percent of directing."
John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer
"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff
"I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director.
And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!"
Howard Hawks
And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!"
Howard Hawks
"Art is a sense of magic."
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage
"Casting is 65 percent of directing."
John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer
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