Bryan Singer Quotes

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

I want my films to be different, to use different techniques, not just make a calling card film.

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.

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

What I'm trying to do is to make films - 'I Origins' is one of them - with the new generation of filmmakers. I want to support that.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I adore Stanley Kubrick, all of his films were different, not just in subject but tonally.

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

I don't want to just make the safe, easy commercial films.

I've always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking this greater power.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

I have always believed Chandra Barot is a very talented director.

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.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.

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.

Kurosawa was truly inventive.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

I want to be part of movies which set benchmarks for a new kind of cinema.

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.

There is something to be said for one vision and following one vision through. I do think it's something TV will catch up to at some point and realize, 'Wow, we're in the Golden Age of Television right now; we've taken television to another level, but now let's take it to an even higher level where it is one vision throughout a whole season.'