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Ken Loach
13 quotes · Directing

Alfred Hitchcock
11 quotes · Directing · Acting · Cinema

Steven Spielberg
10 quotes · Directing

David Fincher
8 quotes · Directing

Akira Kurosawa
7 quotes · Directing

Robert Bresson
7 quotes · Directing · Cinematography · Cinema

Orson Welles
6 quotes · Directing · Acting

Rachel Morrison
6 quotes · Directing · Cinematography

Reed Morano
6 quotes · Cinematography

Werner Herzog
6 quotes · Directing · Acting · Cinema

Christopher Nolan
5 quotes · Directing · Acting

George Lucas
5 quotes · Directing

Michael Caine
5 quotes · Acting

Quentin Tarantino
5 quotes · Directing

Stanley Kubrick
5 quotes · Directing · Cinematography

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
4 quotes · Directing

Cate Blanchett
4 quotes · Acting

Charlie Chaplin
4 quotes · Directing · Acting

Greig Fraser
4 quotes · Cinematography

Krzysztof Kieślowski
4 quotes · Directing

Robert Duvall
4 quotes · Acting

Robin Williams
4 quotes · Acting

Roger Deakins
4 quotes · Directing · Cinematography

Anthony Hopkins
3 quotes · Acting