“He famously was interested in pure cinema, using the image and the sound rather than people just sitting around talking.”
Julian Jarrold On Alfred Hitchcock

“Kurosawa never affected me directly in terms of my own movie-making because I never would have presumed that I was capable of that perception and that vision.”
Sidney Lumet On Akira Kurosawa

“The real measure of good directing is knowing when not to move the camera, when not to intrude. ”
Ken Kwapis

“The really interesting directors are those that use the camera in such a way to make you perceive a scene in a very particular way.”
Kevin Reynolds

“Spence is the best we have, because you don't see the mechanism working.”
Humphrey Bogart On Spencer Tracy