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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.
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].
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.
I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.
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.
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.
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.
Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.