| "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 best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time." Steve Wozniak |
| "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 |
| "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 |
