Quotes by Film Directors

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.
Clive Barker
I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.
Stephen Chbosky
A monster lies in wait in me,A stew of wounds and misery,But fiercer still in life and limb,The me that lies in wait in him.
Clive Barker
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
Tom Ford
Youth has become a class.
Roger Vadim
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
Federico Fellini
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
George Miller
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor
Stay out of jail.
Alfred Hitchcock
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
Federico Fellini
Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
No man is demolished but by himself.
Thomas Bentley
To play it safe is not to play.
Robert Altman
Every minute of life I take a risk it's part of the enjoyment.
Otto Preminger
Hindsight is always zo/20.
Billy Wilder
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
Federico Fellini
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
Frank Capra
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
Federico Fellini
The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.
Howard Hughes
When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
George Cukor
Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
Federico Fellini
Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brook
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Frank Miller
Hindsight is always zo/20.
Billy Wilder
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
Federico Fellini
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
Frank Capra
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
Federico Fellini
The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.
Howard Hughes
When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
George Cukor
Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
Federico Fellini
Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brook
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Frank Miller
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.
Vittorio de Sica
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
Luck is everything. ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock
The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.
Stanley Kubrick
When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.
Federico Fellini
I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Ingmar Bergman
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Robert Altman
Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
Roberto Rossellini
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.
Laurie Anderson
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
Ingmar Bergman
Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
George Cukor
When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
George Cukor
Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
Federico Fellini
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
David Cronenberg
When I was very young I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too that I didn't show more promise at it or I might have been an automobile dealer.
King Vidor