Film Directing Quotes

Film Directing Quote of the day

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

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.

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

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.

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].

I really, really love directing films.

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.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.