Paul Bettany Quotes

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

I feel Prawaal Raman is an amazing director with great films in his pocket like 'Gayab.'

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

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.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

I loved working with Peter Weir. I think he's one of the greats and will be remembered as one of the greats.

My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.

I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.

Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.

Tarsem Singh was such a fantastic director.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

Wiseman's films are some of the most pure cinema, and to take a journey in a Wiseman film is like no other. He's been doing it so long, with a body of over 40 films!

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.

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 have made more good films than anyone else in the country.

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.

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.