Bill Paxton

“It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set...”

Ron Howard

“You reach a point where you say you’re not going to do juveniles any longer.”

Alan Parker

“Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.”

Adam Elliot

“All my films are essentially about difference and the way we perceive ourselves and others.”

Danny DeVito

“It’s fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you’re not safe, when you’re not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.”

Lindsay Anderson

“Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.”

Louis C.K.

“Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go "ugh...."”

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Mike Mills

“Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.”

Fritz Lang

“I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears...to my constant regret.”

Elia Kazan

“I like directors who come on the set and create something that’s a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.”

Peter Weir

“There’s almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.”

Tim Hunter

Frank Oz

“The biggest problems with movies are expectations.”

John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

Sergio Leone

“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life in jeeps and upset all my dreams.”

Robert Zemeckis

“No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.”

Jonathan Demme

“I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters. ”

Billy Wilder

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

Andrew Bujalski

“When you have to live with something for so many years, the film becomes indistinguishable from what you think of as your life. I’m sure there’s a danger to that. But there are also great things that can come from that.”