Thoughts from directors around the world.
I’ve never bought that cliché that you should never take people out of the narrative, take people out of that dramatic illusion. I’m more of a person who loves his grandmother. I’m thinking when a grandmother sits at the foot … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 28, 1956
Obstacles make a better picture. —Victor Fleming Continue reading Born On This Day — February 23, 1889
The films that influenced me the most, however, were Fritz Lang’s. When I saw Destiny, I suddenly knew that I too wanted to make movies. It wasn’t the three stories themselves that moved me so much, but the main episode—the … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 22, 1900
You can’t make violence real to audiences today without rubbing their noses in it. We watch our wars and see men die, really die, every day on television, but it doesn’t seem real. We don’t believe those are real people … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 21, 1925
People talk about my signature. But I ask them if they ever saw Howard Hawks’ films. They’re filled with overlapping dialog. Everything I’ve learned has come from watching other directors: Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa, Huston, and Renoir. —Robert Altman Continue reading Born On This Day — February 20, 1925
I know this sounds so little, and not serious enough, but I believe that I have to have fun. We all have to have fun—me, the actors, the cameraman, everybody should feel as if we are making a home movie, … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 18, 1932
There’s always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If Pi didn’t work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don’t think I would have gotten another shot at it. If Requiem for … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 12, 1969
I felt the urge to direct because I couldn’t stomach what was being done with what I wrote. —Joseph L. Mankiewicz Continue reading Born On This Day — February 11, 1909
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