There have been phrases of very emblematic film directors throughout history. Many refer to technical aspects of management work, others to the conditions necessary to exercise this function, or even to general aspects of life.
Among the most important directors in the history of cinema are Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubric, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, among others.
Alfred Hitchcock
1- "All I need to do a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
2- "If you don't make mistakes from time to time, you don't try."
3- "The good thing about cinema is that for two hours the problems belong to others."
4- «What is acting, if not lying? And what is to act well, if not to lie convincing? »
5- «With a good script you can make a good movie or a bad movie. With a bad script you will only have bad movies.
6- "We have a lot of time ahead of us to create dreams that we still don't even imagine dreaming."
Steven Spielberg
7- «The script is what you have dreamed it should be. The movie is what you finish ».
8- «When I return to Europe I still feel like an incomplete man. Here you have sensitivity and diversity, two virtues that have almost completely disappeared in my country.
9- «I am so cowardly that until I have a good scriptwriter I don't want to make a movie».
10- "There is nothing more fun than when something unexpected happens at a funeral, because in a tragic situation is when one wants to laugh more: that is humor, the unexpected."
11- «The most important thing is to have a good script. Filmmakers are not alchemists. You can't turn chicken droppings into chocolate. '
12- "Life is not about how hard you hit, but about how hard you get hit and don't give up."
13- «Imagine a man sitting on your favorite sofa at home. Below is a bomb ready to explode. He ignores it, but the public knows it. This is suspense.
14- «Six, eight million viewers. These are figures that no theater director or novelist could ever dream of, least of all Aeschylus, Sophocles or Euripides ».
15- «A good wine is like a good movie: it lasts a moment and leaves a taste of glory in your mouth; it is new in every sip and, as with the movies, it is born and reborn in each taster ».
16- "The sense of humor consists of knowing how to laugh at one's own misfortunes."
17- «All the great directors say 'NO' to something. Federico Fellini to the real exteriors, Ingmar Bergman to the accompanying music, Robert Bresson to the professional actors, Hitchcock to the documentary shooting.
18- «Being a film director in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan».
19- «There are too many people who take themselves seriously and try to say transcendent things when they put a microphone in front of them. I try just the opposite: to say an outburst, a childbirth, to make a face ».
20- «You can die in peace, if you have fulfilled your vocation».
21- «A movie is (or should be) like music. It must be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme comes after the emotion; the sense, later ».
22- «The only way to be successful is for people to hate you. So they will remember you.
23- "If you can speak bright enough on a subject you will give the impression that you master it."
24- "Cinema deals with what is inside the painting and what is outside".
25- "Each film must have its own world, a logic and feel that it expands beyond the exact image that the public is seeing."
References
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