Director Quotes

I like films to be complete in their written form.

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

Don't make jokes about food.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support th

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.

Making movies is all about instinct.

It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

If no producer, no movie.

I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.