David R. Ellis Quotes

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

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

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.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

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

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

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

I'm a huge film buff. If it wasn't for Martin Scorcese, Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, I wouldn't be here.

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've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him.

Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Personally, I don't know what I'd do without films.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

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

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.

Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have really left a mark on who I am as a director.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

I went from silent films to watching French new wave cinema. I became entrapped by it all. That's when I knew I wanted to do film. The moment you start looking at film from a critique point of view - there's a difference between watching a film as an audience and with a critical point of view.

I grew up with a deep regard for cinema.

I started really idolizing people like Nicole Holofcener and Whit Stillman.

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.