Cinema Quote by David O. Russell

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

— Keren Ann

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The…

— Stanley Kubrick

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me.…

— Holly Hunter

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that what is…

— Alice McDermott

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with…

— Jonathan Demme

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when…

— John le Carre

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances…

— Federico Fellini

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction…

— Debra Granik