18 Brilliant Movie Quotes from 18 Great Directors

In April, I wrote a piece about brilliant director quotes,it became an instant hit,people love reading what their heroes and icons said about film and filmmaking.Since it gained an impressive recognition and popularity,I’m gonna do it again,and expand the list from 16 to 18 quotes,I hope you are gonna enjoy it as well as my last one.
 

“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” – Stanley Kubrick

 

“Directing ain’t about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn’t want to go to film school. I didn’t know what the point was. The fact is, you don’t know what directing is until the sun is setting and you’ve got to get five shots and you’re only going to get two.” – David Fincher

 

“To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don’t think is a good ride.” – Darren Aronofsky

 

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” – Orson Welles

 

“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.” – Billy Wilder

 

“I am the best film director in the world.” – Lars von Trier

 

“Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man’s imagination.” – Nicholas Ray

 

“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.” – Alain Resnais

 

“I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.” – Alfred Hitchcock

 

“Why make a movie about something one understands completely? I make movies about things I do not understand, but wish to.” – Seijun Suzuki

 

“When somebody who makes movies for a living — either as an actor, writer, producer or director — lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film — a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.” – John Carpenter

 

“Directing is really creating an atmosphere, a particular kind of atmosphere and usually one that is very peculiar to the director. It doesn’t necessarily have to be. Some directors have no personality and it shows. But one way or another, what the actors are doing or the crews are doing, they’re trying to please the director.” – Peter Bogdanovich

 

“I mean, making a film is so scary and there’s such a kind of void that you’re working from initially. I mean, you can have all the ideas and be as prepared as possible, but you’re also still bringing people together and saying, “Trust me”, even when you don’t necessarily trust every element. You’re making something out of nothing and it requires so many people’s collaborative efforts and participation that it seems like at any moment it could just fall through the cracks and be gone forever.” – Todd Haynes

 

“I’ll use the same words as Picasso, not to compare myself to him, but because they fit. He said, ‘I will go on painting until painting refuses me and doesn’t want me anymore.’ I’m trying to do this with motion pictures. To go until motion pictures refuse me. Not an audience, and certainly not the industry — the industry already did! But to go until the screen says: No.” – Jean-Luc Godard

 

“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.” – Federico Fellini

 

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me” – Tim Burton

 

“I don’t quite know what an auteur is. I’ve never quite understood that term, because filmmaking is such a huge team effort, you – I mean, I regard myself as being sort of the final filter, so everything that ends up in the movie is there, because it’s something that I’d think was cool if I saw the film that somebody else had made. I’m very much trying to make the film that I’ve enjoyed, but I’m open to ideas, I need a huge team of people to help me, everybody contributes and I try to encourage people to contribute as much as possible. I think that’s the job of a director really, is to sort of funnel all the creative into one centralized point of view. And the marketing is sort of something that really happens with other people, it’s not something that I’m at all an expert in, and I regard my job at the end of the day as to make the best possible film I can, and that’s really where my job stops and marketing people take over after that.” – Peter Jackson

 

“I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don’t care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.” – Terry Gilliam

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