Director's Quote Pt. 7

Ideas are like fish. They just come to you sometimes and when you're really lucky, you fall in
love with them and know exactly what to do.

-David Lynch

'I'm saying now each movie really does count, you put your heart and soul in it and you can't take
it lightly. So every time you invest a piece of yourself or peel off another layer of skin, it's gonna cost you.'         

-Oliver Stone

'Directors grow great by subtracting, not adding.'

-Roger Ebert

"At a certain point, you can actually feel it go through your body. It's part of you. And
sometimes, when it all comes together on the set, and especially when it comes together in the cutting room, it becomes part of you. It's like it just seeps out of your body. And...you become the film you're making".

-Martin Scorsese

'There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by
black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation'.

-Ava Duvernay

'I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in life. If you're doing something and you have a desire to do something different, give it a try.'

-Ava Duvernay

'To be a filmmaker you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions. It is a social act unlike
the work of a painter, who attempts to impose his individuality on society. As a filmmaker, you must work alone and yet you must handle actresses, you must deal with producers who may work against the best interests of your picture, you must face technicians who only want to go home. You must have talents of so many different kinds of talents that are contradictory. You must be timid and bold. You must be modest, in order to create scenes that are intimate, that are delicate, yet you must be authoriative and arbitrary, to enable yourself to do it as you must."

-Francois Truffaut ('64)