David Lean Quotes

"Actors can be a terrible bore on the set, though I enjoy having dinner with them."

"I wouldn't take the advice of a lot of so-called critics on how to shoot a close-up of a teapot."

"Always cast against the part and it won't be boring."

"When the great actor says the line, you can put scissors precisely at the point A and it's wonderful. When the star says the line, you can hold for four frames longer because something else happens."

[On the Academy Awards] "If you have no hope of getting one, they're despised. But it you have, they're very important."

"Film is a dramatized reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique."

"I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures."