Director Quotes

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I'm just a storyteller.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

I think you get better as you get older.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?