The top 10 most inspiring quotes by DW Griffith

• When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
• It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one’s audience.
• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
• I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them – that is generally acknowledged now.
• Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
• I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
• Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.
• There will never be talking pictures.

D. W. Griffith was an influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter, often called one of the founders of modern cinema. Born David Wark Griffith on January 22, 1875, in La Grange, Kentucky, he began his career as an actor and playwright before turning to filmmaking.

Griffith pioneered many cinematic techniques, including close-ups, cross-cutting, and innovative narrative structures, helping to establish film as a serious storytelling medium. He directed more than 400 short films and several features, most notably The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).

While The Birth of a Nation was technically groundbreaking, it is also widely condemned for its racist themes and historical distortions. Despite this controversy, Griffith’s technical innovations profoundly shaped the language of cinema. He died on July 23, 1948, and remains a complex, highly debated figure in film history.

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