Campfire Quote by Chris Pine

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

— David Strathairn

I have always thought of films as stories for the world.

— John Hillcoat

Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling.

— Nia DaCosta

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't…

— Michael Schultz

I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have…

— Robert Englund

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach…

— Clark Johnson

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

— Ray Harryhausen

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie…

— Jose Padilha

The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of…

— Sally Potter

If we could tell a film, then why make a film?

— Jafar Panahi

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a…

— David Attenborough

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd…

— Steve McQueen