American Film Director

Famous quotes containing the words american, film and/or director:

    “If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    “When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.””
    —John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)