| "I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail." Wes Anderson |
| "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy." Bette Davis |
| "If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices." Heath Ledger |
| "You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air." Amy Sedaris |
| "The good ideas will survive." Quentin Tarantino |
| "I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture." Zack Snyder |
| "When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world." Darren Aronofsky |
| "Sometimes, when you're on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the day, it's a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, of a scene, or how to deliver a line, or how do this visually." Wong Kar-wai |
| "To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence." Quentin Tarantino |
| "Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things." David Lynch |
| "In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it." Rosie Perez |
| "I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colours you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion." Pedro Almodovar |
| "I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited." Neill Blomkamp |
| "Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre." Roman Polanski |
| "You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker." Peter Weir |
| "It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies." River Phoenix |
| "I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions." Edward Norton |
| "Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong." Robert De Niro |
| "To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle." Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu |
| "Pick up a camera. Shoot something...Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director." James Cameron |
| "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies." Steve Martin |
| "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle." Stanley Kubrick |
| "We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise." Dustin Hoffman |
| "I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema." Antoine Fuqua |
| "You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you." Charlize Theron |
| "Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself." Jeanne Moreau |
| "Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?" Tim Burton |
| "I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting." Jim Jarmusch |
| "One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself." Christopher Nolan |
| "Film music has a great history of composers and performers." David Newman |
