Quotes by Film Directors - Page 12

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
Jean-Luc Godard
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
I sat down and tried to write a story."Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight."That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him.
Stephen Chbosky
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
Banksy
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
George Lucas
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
Banksy
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
Banksy
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
Tim Burton
Puns are the highest form of literature.
Alfred Hitchcock
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Jean-Luc Godard
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
Werner Herzog
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson
I feel infinite.
Stephen Chbosky
I hate you."I love you."You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."I'm trying not to be.
Stephen Chbosky
And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.
Stephen Chbosky
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,What have you done to my boy?He's not flesh and blood,he's aluminum alloy!"The doctor said gently,What I'm going to saywill sound pretty wild.But you're not the father of this strange looking child.You see, there still is some questionabout the child's gender,but we think that its fatheris a microwave blender.
Tim Burton
My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.
Tim Burton
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?
Tim Burton
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
George Lucas
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
Tim Burton
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
Clive Barker
I dreamed I spoke in another's language,I dreamed I lived in another's skin,I dreamed I was my own beloved,I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,And when I breathed a garden came,I dreamed I knew all of Creation,I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--That all I dreamed was real and true,And we would live in joy forever,You in me, and me in you.
Clive Barker
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Clive Barker
We accept the love we think we deserve.
Stephen Chbosky
I would die for you. But I won't live for you.
Stephen Chbosky
What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?
Stephen Chbosky
I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
Stephen Chbosky
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
Stephen Chbosky
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
Stephen Chbosky
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.
Stephen Chbosky
I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.
Stephen Chbosky
I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.
Stephen Chbosky
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
Stephen Chbosky
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
Stephen Chbosky
I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
Stephen Chbosky
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
Stephen Chbosky
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
Stephen Chbosky
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
Stephen Chbosky