Filmmaker Quote by Darren Aronofsky

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to…

— Ed Murray

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds.

— Dave Barry

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

— Miguel Gomes

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the…

— Sidney Lumet

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately…

— Andrea Arnold

Listen, most people go to movie theaters with an open mind - not knowing how they're going to react to the film they're about…

— Deon Cole

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

— Marcia Gay Harden

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I believe that films are meant for entertainment, but in that process, you have the possibility to think about what kind of entertainment you're…

— Rajiv Menon

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

— John Hurt

I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

— Anne Hathaway