Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akira Kurosawa

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

Billy Wilder

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

Billy Crystal

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Jean Renoir

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

Mathieu Amalric

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Stanley Kubrick

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

Steven Spielberg

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

Jessica Hagedorn

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

Ashley Bell

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

Lady Gaga

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Skeet Ulrich

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

Alan Moore

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

Dave Chappelle

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent. In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent, ... In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Maria Bamford

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Louis C. K.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Bob Newhart

One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

Bob Newhart

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

Bo Burnham

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.