David Lean

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“A film is made in the cutting room.”

“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.”

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

“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.”