Film Direction

Quotes & Thinkers in Film Direction

37 thinkers

Sort:

Notable Thinkers

37 of 37

🇺🇸Leonard Nimoy

Entertainment

1931–2015

"I’m much more emotional than Mr. Spock. Spock rarely betrays what he is thinking or feeling. He’s fun to portray. But I hope I won’t explode one of these days."

"Your Value Doesn't Decrease Based On Someone's Inability To See Your Worth."

"The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years."

"The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How."

"I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland."

6 quotes

🇺🇸Jordan Vogt-Roberts

"People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries."

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

"I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business."

"Alanis Obomsawin – femfilm.ca: Canadian Women Film Directors Database"

"On ‘Shrek’ we didn't try to figure out how to make adolescents laugh. You have to use yourself as the best judge and use your own instincts. We figured if we laughed at it, chances are good someone else would too."

"Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars."

"There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories."

"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."

21 quotes

🇬🇧Mick Jackson (director)

Entertainment

b. 1943

"The idea was to take a movie which was about death...and use the iconography of life to tell the story."

"A genius is just a mentally ill person with an audience."

"…I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool."

"All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."

"It is risky, in this cynical and mocking age, to make a determinedly traditional biopic … a film willing to focus on the good that men do."

"He was a small horse, barely fifteen hands. He was hurting, too. There was a limp in his walk, a wheezing when he breathed. Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the eye."

"Speaking of the Dead" - An interview with George A Romero"

6 quotes

🇬🇧David Hare (dramatist)

Literature

b. 1947

"The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts."

"One thing I can say is either to look at films very carefully, watch a lot of films, or don't see any films at all. Just imagine!"

"If the Lord wants to use me as a sort of a David-voice in the face of the Goliath of our sinful culture, you know I'm ready to pull out the slingshot."

"It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance."

"What I am doing is not giving religion respect that it wants but it doesn't deserve. I respect people; I respect humans. I do not respect religion. And I do not respect the idea that religion deserves respect."

12 quotes