Peter Fonda Quotes

I think about a lot of my favorite directors, and I think about their first films, and I have great admiration for the earthiness of those films.

I'm not as savvy and knowledgable about all of the directors that are out there, but as a person, I'm really open-minded and love meeting new people and watching the way directors film and their perspectives and following their lead.

My gaze is very different from that of Ekta Kapoor's, and that is quite visible in those two films - 'Ragini MMS 2' and 'Jism 2.'

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

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

To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.

Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.

I think every filmmaker has his way of working, and I respect that.

When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.

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

Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over and over again, marvelling at how that story visually unfolded.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.