Cinema Quote by Abdellah Taia

Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art,"…

— William Boyd

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when…

— John le Carre

What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception through production…

— Peter Vack

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself…

— Werner Herzog

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of…

— Owen Pallett

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

— Terry Southern

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just…

— Forest Whitaker

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If…

— Dan Brown

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something…

— Stanley Kubrick