Peter Bogdanovich

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they’re getting this kind of money is because the studios don’t know what else to do. They don’t have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money. Peter Bogdanovich You see so many movies… the younger [...]

Luc Besson

It’s always the small people who change things. It’s never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn’t have a clue the day before. Luc Besson  

Claude Berri

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave. Claude Berri

Ingmar Bergman

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Ingmar Bergman I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the [...]

Bruce Beresford

He’s wrong. That’s why his films look so terrible. Bruce Beresford I didn’t get upset because I wasn’t nominated, but I was a little surprised. Bruce Beresford At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films. Bruce Beresford Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. [...]

Robert Benton

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called ‘slow’. It’s an awful feeling to think of yourself as ‘slow’ – it’s horrible. Robert Benton My next film is always shaped by the last one… by the things I feel I didn’t get right, or the things I like and want to [...]

Busby Berkeley

I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour. Busby Berkeley

Michael Bay

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. Michael Bay It’s great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we’ve all got to relax a bit more. Michael Bay A [...]

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn’t effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it’s too much. Alejandro Amenabar I wouldn’t say I’m a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don’t tell them exactly what I want because I want them [...]

Ralph Bakshi

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them. Ralph Bakshi Look what Disney’s done to their animation department. There wasn’t an animator in charge of their [...]

Lindsay Anderson

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. Lindsay Anderson

John Badham

Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he’s uncredited. He’s done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years. John Badham I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how [...]

Tim Burton

One person’s crazyness is another person’s reality. Tim Burton I don’t know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies. Tim Burton People told me I couldn’t kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him [...]

Moustapha Akkad

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West. Moustapha Akkad Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It [...]

Darren Aronofsky

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused. Darren Aronofsky I’m not a comic book guy at all. Darren Aronofsky Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn’t as hunky-dory like it was. [...]

Dario Argento

Maybe when I stop making movies, I’ll understand my work better. Dario Argento If you don’t like my movies, don’t watch them. Dario Argento But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. Dario Argento Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. Dario Argento I also don’t like [...]

Michelangelo Antonioni

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. Michelangelo Antonioni Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance. Michelangelo Antonioni We live in [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson

I’ll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will. Paul Thomas Anderson No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay. Paul Thomas Anderson Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald’s, and stuff [...]

Robert Altman

What’s a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. Robert Altman If you don’t have a leg to stand on, you can’t put your foot down. Robert Altman Maybe there’s a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and [...]

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Today’s cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world’s total. Jean-Jacques Annaud War scenes are less difficult than love scenes. Jean-Jacques Annaud America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become [...]

Robert Aldrich

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths. Robert Aldrich I don’t think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films. Robert Aldrich

Pedro Almodovar

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn’t seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. Pedro Almodovar I [...]

Ken Burns

I subscribe to William Faulkner’s’ view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. Ken Burns By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz. Ken Burns I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and [...]

Woody Allen

Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon. Woody Allen Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. Woody Allen He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by [...]

James Cameron

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there’s almost no pattern. James Cameron What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death? James Cameron You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything. James Cameron It’ll be all of our efforts together. It won’t won’t ever be exactly [...]

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