Quotes of: Roman-polanski Keyword

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

War

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

You and Me, Babe

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Nicholas Jarecki

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

We stitch together our days and edit out our nights.

Julia Leigh

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

Neil Marshall

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

Nick Park

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

Nicolas Roeg

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Nicolas Roeg

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Oliver Stone

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

Paul Thomas Anderson

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

Peter Bart

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Park Chan-wook

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

Philippe Falardeau

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

Philippe Falardeau

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

Paul Haggis

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

Paul Haggis

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

Paul Schrader