Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing…

I love it when other people can come up with ideas and tell me what to do.

— Ariel Pink

You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

— Reese Witherspoon

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them.”

— Eraldo Banovac

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

— Shia LaBeouf

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

— Lena Dunham

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that…

— David Lynch

My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned…

— Rian Johnson

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

— Richard Linklater

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

— Slavenka Drakulic

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

— Hany Abu-Assad

“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments…

— Anne Lamott

I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who's a dear friend of mine.

— Angelina Jolie

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

— Snoh Aalegra

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, "…

— Diana Gabaldon