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Louis Malle
“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.”
François Truffaut
“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”
Alexander Payne
“I thank you for this award, though I think there may be a problem with a world in which making small, human and humorous films is ‘an achievement.’ It should be the norm.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
Elia Kazan
“I like directors who come on the set and create something that’s a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.”
George Cukor
“I don't weep or anything, but there's always some part of me left bloody on the scene I've just directed.”
Billy Wilder
“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
Jean-Luc Godard
“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”
Federico Fellini
“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”
Wes Anderson
“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”
Michelangelo Antonioni
“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”
Carol Reed
“I give the public what I like, and hope they will like it too.”
Robert Bresson
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”