“I'm a strong-minded director with a very clear sense of what I want to do, and I just want to be left alone to do it.”
Karyn Kusama

“Tales of my toughness are exaggerated. I never killed an actor.”
John Huston

“I'm overpaid, over-stimulated, over-hyped, over-age, but I am the only person in our business who'll admit it.”
Joel Schumacher

“[Hollywood] is filled with people who make adventure pictures and who have never left this place... religious pictures and they haven't been in a church or synagogue for years... pictures about love and they have never been in love — ever.”
Richard Brooks

“I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.”
Leonardo DiCaprio