Quotes on Film Directing

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.