Best Film Directing Quotes - Inspiring & Motivational Collection

Cinema Is A Matter Of What's In The Frame And What's Out.

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.

Human Beings Share The Same Common Problems. A Film Can Only Be Understood If It Depicts These Properly.

A Film Is - Or Should Be - More Like Music Than Like Fiction.

If It Can Be Written, Or Thought, It Can Be Filmed.

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.

In Feature Films The Director Is God; In Documentary Films God Is The Director.

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.

The More Successful The Villain, The More Successful The Picture.

The Dynamics Of Film Directing And Fashion Design - In The Ways That I've Done It - Were Not Dissimilar.

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.

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.