Quotes by Film Directing Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly. Akira Kurosawa film-directing problem common 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 film-directing movie thinking The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. Alfred Hitchcock film-directing successful directors 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. Alfred Hitchcock film-directing eye people In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. Alfred Hitchcock documentary-films film-directing directors 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. Billy Crystal film-directing nyu comedian A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Billy Wilder sycophants film-directing directors 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. George Clooney film-directing sound-and-music fun No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. Ingmar Bergman film-directing twilight art Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together. James Genn film-directing music together A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again. Jean Renoir film-directing movie inspiring Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Martin Scorsese film-directing gambling movie 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]. Mathieu Amalric film-directing lasts three A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles film-directing movie eye 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 independent-filmmaking film-directing movie If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. Stanley Kubrick filmmaking film-directing directors A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. Stanley Kubrick independent-filmmaking film-directing directors 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. Stephen Frears testimony film-directing teach People have forgotten how to tell a story. Steven Spielberg film-directing directors people The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar. Tom Ford film-directing design fashion