Quotes by Directors

My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Young Side Flying Carpet Higher Higher Level Ideal Audience Brain Move Want Turn Viewer Eager Level Consciousness Images

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Love Family Humanity Just Want To Love

Books are finished. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Finished Books

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life Every Makes His Person Artist Artwork

I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Funny Dress Liked Lady Gaga Meat

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Death Problem Everybody Massive Accepting

The future is always a dystopia in movies. Alex Cox

Future Always Movies Dystopia

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. Alex Cox

Crime King Shakespeare Greatest Play

You can't change the system through violence. Alex Cox

You Change System Through Violence

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling. Alex Cox

Find Studies Particularly Did

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures. Alex Cox

Pickup Negative Pictures Doing Began Unfortunately Hollywood Universal Career

I don't think about Hollywood at all. Alex Cox

Think About Hollywood

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. Alex Cox

Problem Poverty Big Imagination Our Way Corporations Angeles How Real Los Los Angeles Handful Dictate Big Problem Stories Creates

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say. Alex Cox

Good Sense Say Directors Because Always Good Actor They Say Actor

I'd love to make another film in Mexico. Alex Cox

Love Make Another Mexico Film

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua. Alex Cox

Made Crew Although Mexican Walker Shot Nicaragua

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. Alex Cox

Genius Walks Down Evidence Restaurant Critics Some Scene Kitchen Through Steps Over Were Camera Scorsese Goes Where

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. Alex Cox

Motorcycle You Reservation Out Indian Never Policeman

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done. Alex Cox

Visual Come Terms Done Essential Representation

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd. Alex Cox

Hope Thomas Tragedy Spanish Based Play

When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.' Alex Gibney

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics. Alex Gibney

Best Job Difficult Criticize Critics Another Left Filmmaker