Audience Quote by David Lean

Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't - like…

— Tom Savini

Making realistic films is basically about the style.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make…

— John Lasseter

Film taught me an enormous amount about the internal life a performance has to have, and that life has to be real. You can…

— Mariette Hartley

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

— Peter Greenaway

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

— Adam Wingard

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but…

— Robert Duvall

There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also…

— Alexandra Daddario

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda…

— Michael Haneke

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

— William Friedkin

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but…

— Frank Capra

A filmmaker has to have great vision in order to tell a compelling story that is both distinctive and stylistic. I remember playing all…

— Nicholas Ozeki