Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's…

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if…

— Walter Murch

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have…

— Nick Cave

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

— John Smith

“Why on earth had I agreed to this? Oh, that's right. He suckered me into it with his manipulating words and those damn dimples.”

— Ella Frank

“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating.”

— wildbow

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There…

— Dario Argento

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

— Madonna Ciccone

Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates…

— Robert Dallek

I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are…

— Larry Kirshbaum

In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering…

— Arthur Potts Dawson

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked…

— David Cronenberg

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the…

— Mark Pagel

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when…

— Walter Kirn

Animation is manipulating the difference.

— Norman McLaren