“A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.”
Howard Hawks,
Director of Bringing Up Baby, Rio Bravo, To Have and To Have Not
“I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.” “If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.”
Steven Spielberg
Director of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, War of the Worlds
Quentin Tarantino,
Director of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
Stanley Kubrick
Director of 2001: A Space Oddyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves.”
Orson Welles
Director of Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane and The Lady from Shanghai
“With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.”
Akira Kurosawa
Director of The Seven Samaurai and Throne of Blood
“A director’s job is to make something happen, and it doesn’t happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don’t bring a passion and intensity to it, you shouldn’t be doing it.”
James Cameron
Director of Titanic and Aliens