Why on earth had I agreed to this? Oh, that's right. He…

“His words! Damn him and his words! They make me forget that I care about anything.”

— M. Leighton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Madonna Ciccone

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

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

— wildbow

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

— John Smith

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

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

Animation is manipulating the difference.

— Norman McLaren