Cinematic Visionary Quotes

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.

I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.

[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive Stanley Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.