Quentin Tarantino Quote

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Sam Mendes

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Elia Kazan

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Emma Thompson

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Pedro Almodovar

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Tell almost the whole story.

Anne Sexton

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

• Self-discovery

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin

• Reality
• Imagination

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Stanley Kubrick

• Freedom

I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

Justin Timberlake

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Robert Frost

• Society

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Mark Twain

• People

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Sophie Marceau

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Francis Ford Coppola

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!

Scarlett Johansson

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

Jennifer Aniston

• Heart

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Jane Fonda

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

Alanis Morissette

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Emma Thompson