Claudia Cardinale Quotes

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

'Zakhm' was my last film as a director.

At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

In terms of directing, there's a number of directors who definitely had a great impact on me, Woody Allen certainly being one of them.

I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.

The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor.