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Leo McCarey
“I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theater than when it came in.”
Jacques Tati
“Like a dancer learns to dance ... a visual comic learns to use his legs.”
Jean-Luc Godard
“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”
Ernst Lubitsch
“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”
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.”
Frank Capra
“My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don’t follow trends. Start them!”
David Lean
“My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.”
John Ford
“I hate the cinema. But I like making westerns.”
Howard Hawks
“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! ”
William Wyler
“I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
Stanley Kubrick
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
Billy Wilder
“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”