| "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 |
| "The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment." D. H. Lawrence |
| "I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment." Walt Disney |
| "On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film." Sam Shepard |
| "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 |
| "I start a picture and I finish it." Jean-Michel Basquiat |
| "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 |
| "Comedy is acting out optimism." Robin Williams |
| "The director is the only person who knows what the film is about." Satyajit Ray |
| "If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process." David Lynch |
| "Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more." Xavier Dolan |
| "Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over." Nicole Holofcener |
| "I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making." Guy Pearce |
| "Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theatre could have that impact on the political life of a country?" Patrick Stewart |
| "Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing." Natalie Massenet |
| "I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story." Christopher Nolan |
| "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust |
| "Flowers grow out of dark moments." Corita Kent |
| "The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar." Tom Ford |
| "I paint flowers so they will not die." Frida Kahlo |
| "Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is." Jackson Pollock |
| "Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before." Franz Kafka |
| "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." Francoise Sagan |
| "Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love." Athol Fugard |
| "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." Leo Tolstoy |
