At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively…

There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen…

— Debra Granik

If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have…

— Olly Alexander

Narrative cinema is just an imitation of life. Why would you prevent yourself and the audience of the same images, of the same that…

— Gaspar Noe

Whether people are making narrative cinema or experimental cinematic movie experiences, they all want the biggest screen possible and the quietest room and the…

— Robert Greene

In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what…

— Jonas Mekas

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction…

— George Hickenlooper

I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will…

— Barry Ptolemy

Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann…

— Graham King

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from…

— Henry Moore

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

— Richard P. Feynman

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even…

— Gena Rowlands

Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something…

— Tony Robbins