Archive for the ‘Director’ Category

April 18th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Director, K No Comments »

Kathryn Bigelow

On the other hand, I believe there’s hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
Kathryn Bigelow

I like high impact movies.
Kathryn Bigelow

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
Kathryn Bigelow

Right now, there’s the illusion of order and civilization, but there’s a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Kathryn Bigelow

I don’t believe in censorship in any form.
Kathryn Bigelow

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
Kathryn Bigelow

You never think the universe will reward your first choice – it just doesn’t work like that.
Kathryn Bigelow

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
Kathryn Bigelow

The Communist regime didn’t consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Kathryn Bigelow

If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Kathryn Bigelow

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.
Kathryn Bigelow

I don’t want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
Kathryn Bigelow

When I made my first film, I didn’t think of it as directing, so it wasn’t like I set out to become a director.
Kathryn Bigelow

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Kathryn Bigelow

One should make morals judgements for oneself.
Kathryn Bigelow

Character and emotionality don’t always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Kathryn Bigelow

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn’t sell.
Kathryn Bigelow

There should be more women directing; I think there’s just not the awareness that it’s really possible.
Kathryn Bigelow

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
Kathryn Bigelow

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
Kathryn Bigelow

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Kathryn Bigelow

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Kathryn Bigelow

February 2nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Director, P No Comments »

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 people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there’s no sense of film grammar. There’s no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It’s just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.
Peter Bogdanovich

But at a certain point, and I don’t really know… people have asked me this. I don’t know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Peter Bogdanovich

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
Peter Bogdanovich

 

January 16th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Director, L No Comments »

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

 

December 27th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, C, Director No Comments »

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

December 17th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Director, I No Comments »

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 difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Ingmar Bergman

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Ingmar Bergman

 

December 6th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, B, Director No Comments »

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. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
Bruce Beresford

With a film, I do my best to understand the author’s intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
Bruce Beresford

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
Bruce Beresford

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.
Bruce Beresford

It’s not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they’re not connecting with the characters they are portraying.
Bruce Beresford

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn’t like. It has to work straight through.
Bruce Beresford

Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
Bruce Beresford

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
Bruce Beresford

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
Bruce Beresford

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
Bruce Beresford

There’s a bright spot in every dark cloud.
Bruce Beresford

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.
Bruce Beresford

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
Bruce Beresford

June 23rd, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Director, R No Comments »

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 try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.
Robert Benton

Twilight is about getting older and relationships – not about a murder mystery. It’s about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
Robert Benton

I’d like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
Robert Benton

My education was an education by movies.
Robert Benton

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
Robert Benton

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won’t do squat in Korea.
Robert Benton

June 22nd, 2011 Author Types, Authors, B, Director No Comments »

Busby Berkeley

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

June 1st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Director, M No Comments »

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 lot of directors don’t want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
Michael Bay

Do you know what directors go through? It’s just hell. Like, why do I work so hard – to think I’m only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again ’cause I’m so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?
Michael Bay

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn’t shy. I can be like a general. But I’ve got a shy side. I’m also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don’t let people in too much.’
Michael Bay

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.
Michael Bay

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
Michael Bay

Fast cars are my only vice.
Michael Bay

It’s… a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It’s the worst thing you’ll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.
Michael Bay

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.
Michael Bay

The press don’t like to say nice things because nice is boring. It’s much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we’re responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
Michael Bay

I go out there to win. People don’t care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
Michael Bay

I’m at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I’ve got my dogs as surrogates, but I’m ready for kids.
Michael Bay

We don’t make movies for critics. I’ve done four movies; there’s millions upon millions upon millions of people who’ve paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
Michael Bay

I love doing big movies. It’s awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don’t tell anyone, but I’d do this for free.
Michael Bay

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you’ve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
Michael Bay

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I’ve made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.
Michael Bay

December 21st, 2010 A, Author Types, Authors, Director No Comments »

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 to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
Alejandro Amenabar

What’s really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That’s Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.
Alejandro Amenabar

In horror movies today it’s lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
Alejandro Amenabar

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the ’30s and ’40s. I liked scary books.
Alejandro Amenabar

An Oscar means a lot of things because it’s like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you’re creating you shouldn’t think about it.
Alejandro Amenabar

I think the concept of the sea is very important.
Alejandro Amenabar