English Director Quotes
154 English Director quotes:
"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up."
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"Actors are cattle."
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"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
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Cinema Quotes
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"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
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"Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest."
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"Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time."
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"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."
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"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
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Burial Quotes
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"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
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Movies Quotes
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"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
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"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
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"Self-plagiarism is style."
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Plagiarism Quotes
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"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."
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"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
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"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
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Inventions Quotes
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"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
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"I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one."
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"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
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