Cinema Quote by Andre Bazin

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant…

— Ben Edwards

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function…

— Herbert Read

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the…

— Max von Sydow

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart…

— Howard Shore

I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

“He was an editor for seven years before directing his first film, and his career stands as an argument for the theory that editors…

— Roger Ebert

The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.

— Parvathy

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite,…

— Jeremy Davies

Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and…

— Owen Wilson

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that…

— Norman McLaren

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of…

— John Frankenheimer