Cinema Quote by Agnes Varda

Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a…

— Jon Spaihts

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against…

— Robert Stone

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing…

— Jim Jarmusch

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me…

— Farhan Akhtar

I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion,…

— Thomas Langmann

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make…

— Gus Van Sant

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future…

— Steve Backshall

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

— Michael Connelly