Stephen Fry Quotes

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

Warren Beatty is a great director. I wish Warren would direct another film right now, because I'd love to do another film with Warren. I think that 'Dick Tracy' is an outstanding film in its own right.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

I'd love to direct more.

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.