Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.

I doubt I will ever be in another Michael Bay movie.

I don't direct movies for a living.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

I would love to see Steven Spielberg working. I just think he's the greatest living director.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

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

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'

Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there's never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.