Roupen Zachary Mamoulian (pronunciation perhaps roo-BEN mah-mool-YAHN) (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theatre director. Read full biography of Rouben Mamoulian →
You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.
Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it... →
The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident.... →
A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.