Anchors Quote by David Denby

A lot of films mistake convolutedness for complexity. To me, a simple story can be a powerful spine to build around.

— Panos Cosmatos

As the director, you have to hold in your head the widest possible vision. Not just the idea and the story, but the conceptual…

— Sally Potter

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

— Mason Cooley

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling…

— Mark Ruffalo

“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,”

— Christopher Ryan

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Mr. Rogers would not make a good protagonist of a narrative film. He's without conflict, he's too far along on his journey toward enlightenment…

— Marielle Heller

The director is the one who tells the story.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

— Ludivine Sagnier

“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close…

— Francis M. Nevins

The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of…

— Andrei Tarkovsky