"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
"Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something."
Ed Wood
Ed Wood
"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."
Kenneth Ange
Kenneth Ange
"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow
"As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail."
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes
"A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself."
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
"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."
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
"There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone."
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes
"I've made several films that haven't been shown."
Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger
"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."
JJean-Luc Godard
JJean-Luc Godard
"Casting is 65 percent of directing."
John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer
"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff
"I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director.
And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!"
Howard Hawks
And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!"
Howard Hawks
"Art is a sense of magic."
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage
"Casting is 65 percent of directing."
John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer
Film titles
| "By Hook Or By Crook" |
| "Silence" |
| #whilewewatch |
| 'A TORTURED LIFE" |
| 100 Proof |
| 15 Summers Later |
| 5ive:Thirty One |
| A Farewell to Arm |
| A Lesson In a Box |
| Adele´s Riddle |
| Algo que aprender (Something to learn) |
| Andrew: Story of a Closet Monster |
| Anecdote |
| Animal Blessings |
| Antonio's Breakfast |
| Any Thoughts? |
| Are All Men Pedophiles? |
| ASHLEY WAITS |
| Atroz |
| Baby |
| Best Friend’s Charms |
| Boyz, Girlz & Sparkz |
| Camilo |
| Can't Dance |
| Carta a Julia (Letter to Julia) |
| Chicken & Beef Presents: Monkey Gang The Mockumentary |
| China Doll |
| Chronicles of A Professional Eulogist |
| Cicak |
| Closed For The Season |
| Coffee & Pie |
| COMMITMENT |
| David Dixon is Dead |
| Day At The Pool |
| Delivery Boy |
| Dinosaur Park |
| DOC |
| DOS TRISTES TRES |
| Duality |
| Dulce (Sweet) |
| Easy Street |
| El Resultado (The Result) |
| Ella's Lament |
| Emmanuelle In Wonderland |
| Epitaph |
| Ethereal Chrysalis |
| Experiencing Aging |
| Fambul Tok |
| Fingers |
| Five Boroughs |
| Funeral Season |
| Gack Gack |
| Gospel according to Vivienne |
| GREEN The AmeriCan Dream |
| Hello Bambi |
| I AM JULIA |
| If These Knishes Could Talk |
| Impetuous |
| Into The New World |
| Invocations |
| It's My Park: New York State Pavilion |
| Judas & Jesus |
| Just Like Her |
| Long Island City Boathouse: Moonlight Voyage |
| Macrophilosophy |
| Madly Unto Eternity |
| Making Mistakes |
| Man of the House |
| Manual for bored girls |
| MEHERJAAN |
| Model Rules |
| MOMMY LOVES YOU |
| Move |
| Mr. Bricks |
| Murgi Keno Mutant |
| Neither Day Nor Night |
| No existe el adiós (There is no goodbye) |
| Once upon a time in earth |
| One Night Stand |
| Operation: Save the Banker Horses |
| Out From School |
| Powerless |
| Predator/Prey |
| Projecting The Body |
| Queen |
| Rain in Summer |
| Reflex |
| Reunión (Meeting) |
| Rites of Passage |
| SIlence |
| Sixty in 60 |
| Slate |
| Something Left, Something Taken |
| Stayed For |
| SUBWAY FILM SERIES |
| Sympathy 3000-21 |
| The Agents |
| The Art of Remembrance (El Arte de Recordar) |
| The Back Tenant |
| The Bag |
| The Brother |
| The Desolate |
| The dream of the zebrafish (El sueño del pez cebra) |
| THE DUCK HUNTER |
| The Making of Liberty Jayne |
| The Open City |
| The Perfect Man |
| The Reading |
| The Sisterhood |
| The Sunnyside Murders |
| THE TANK |
| The Walk Home |
| The Woods |
| The Word Never Mentioned |
| Thicker Than Water |
| Trojan Horse |
| TUCK DAVIS |
| UNIFORMADAS (UNIFORMED) |
| Violet to Earth |
| Vulture Culture |
| War Story |
| Welcome Back |
| Writer's Block |
| Xanthus |