Able Quote by Billy Wilder

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

— William Wyler

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

— Julian Fellowes

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

— William Wyler

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the…

— Wadah Khanfar

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems…

— Orson Welles

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

— Akshay Kumar

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors…

— Derek Cianfrance

Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides…

— Ernest Lehman

If you are thrilled about a screenplay, execution never becomes a problem, so that's the way I have achieved 75 films.

— Priyadarshan

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking…

— Campbell Scott

Because of the way that I work with the actors and because a scene is not in this rigid and literal interpretation of something…

— Mike Leigh

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

— Nicolas Winding Refn