Admire Quote by Ava DuVernay

I personally am inspired and motivated by all of these documentarians that came before me like Penelope Spheeris, Frederick Wiseman, and Nick Broomfield.

— John Wilson

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many…

— Alexander Weinstein

I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more devoted to…

— Lena Dunham

I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of…

— Henry Giroux

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

— Alain de Botton

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

— Maeve Binchy

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of…

— Terry Pratchett

I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam Shepard and…

— Harry Dean Stanton

I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt.…

— Gia Coppola

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other…

— Leonard Cohen

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.…

— Alan Lightman