David Lean Quotes

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. - David Lean

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist. - David Lean

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters. - David Lean

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures. - David Lean

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles. - David Lean

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

Don't make jokes about food. - David Lean

[But he earned particular attention in Hollywood for his tenacity in making the grand-scale] A Passage to India, ... the most difficult thing of my life. - David Lean

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