544 Quotes About Directors

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?[Acerbic comment about directors of Brunner Mond, where he worked.]

One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers—anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters.

Even lizard + baby can be director.

Yeni Türk Sineması olarak adlandırılan döneme kadar sinemada romantik (ya da devrimci romantik) anlatılanların dekoru olmaktan kurtulamayan taşra, Kasaba'da ilk kez seyirciyle konuşmaya başladı.

Gilles Deleuze, sinemada anlatıyı hareket-imgeye dayalı organik öyküleme ve zaman-imgeye dayanan kristal öyküleme olmak üzere ikiye ayırır. Karakterlerin karşılaştıkları olaylara tepki göstermesi yahut bizzat olayları tetikleyecek eylemlerde bulunmasını temel alan organik öykülemenin karşısında, karakterin sadece dünyanın görüntüleri dışarıdan seyreden bir “tanık” olduğu, saf görsel-sessel durumlara dayanan kristal öyküleme bulunur.

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

A CEO is a board of directors personified.

Prodigious Preproduction Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Postproduction.

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.