David Lean

“I don't think I'm a very good director. But I'm a very good editor.”

“When you have a great face, you have a great film.”

“Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest.”

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

“Always, in all my films, I've been more interested in the characters and their motives than in the larger events they're involved in.”

“The sound of a film is just as important as the look.”

“A film is made in the cutting room.”

“You must have a certain amount of arrogance... otherwise you'd never get a film made.”

“My great-grandfather was a man of the cloth. My father was a man of the cloth. I am a man of the cloth. The cloth is the screen.”

“I'm a picture-maker, and I'm very lucky.”

“I've always been a bit of a loner. I've always felt a bit of an outsider.”

“I think people are born with a cinematic eye.”