Here are some of the world's greatest directors talking about their craft and the skill it takes to create cinematic masterpieces.

1. Directors on Direction

2. “In the future, everybody is
going to be a director.
Somebody’s got to live a real
life so we have something to
make a movie about”
Cameron Crowe

3. "The funniest thing is
that all the things every
director goes through, I
thought I could
shortcut, but there was
no getting around
those issues"
George Clooney

4. “I’m a storyteller –
that’s the chief function
of a director. And
they’re moving pictures,
let’s make ‘em move”
Howard Hawks.

5. "A story should have a
beginning, a middle, and an
end… but not necessarily in
that order"
Jean-Luc Godard

6. “Anybody can direct a
picture once they know the
fundamentals. Directing is
not a mystery, it’s not an art.
The main thing about
directing is: photograph the
people’s eyes”
John Ford

7. “Cinema is a matter of what’s in
the frame and what’s out”
Martin Scorsese

8. “For any director with a little
lucidity, masterpieces are films
that come to you by accident”
Sidney Lumet

9. “People have forgotten how to
tell a story. Stories don’t have a
middle or an end any more.
They usually have a beginning
that never stops beginning”
Steven Spielberg