Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Resnais

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Al Pacino

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

Al Pacino

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

Akira Kurosawa

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.

Dave Barry

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

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.