Action Quote by Christopher Nolan

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which…

— Umberto Eco

I don't think I have ever made a movie that is autobiographical, but you can't help but use experiences in your life in the…

— Rob Minkoff

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

— Stephen Daldry

I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we talk about…

— Robert Greene

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to…

— Jennifer Lee

“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been…

— Abhijit Naskar

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

— Francois Truffaut

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until…

— M. Night Shyamalan

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is…

— George Hickenlooper

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And…

— Edward Zwick

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

— James Gray