Howard Shore Quotes

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.

With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and touches as many people as possible.

RGV, as a filmmaker, is very smart.

Dibakar and Shekhar have the vision that we would associate with European cinema. They leave their actors on their own to give a personal narration on the screen.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.

I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

I think one of my favorite directors is P.T. Anderson - living directors, I should say. And Spike Jonze is one of my favorites, Gus Van Sant.

I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.