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If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

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The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

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David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

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I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films. ↗

— Alain Resnais

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I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

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When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

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We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything. ↗

— James Lipton

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In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background. ↗

— Mario Lopez

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You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. ↗

— Sidney Lumet

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