Cinema Quote by Dee Rees

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel…

— Clint Eastwood

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How…

— Oliver Stone

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities…

— Ralph Fiennes

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a…

— Ben Wheatley

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

— J. J. Abrams

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture…

— Mads Mikkelsen

One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a…

— Delroy Lindo

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any…

— Federico Fellini

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

— Bruce Beresford

If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's…

— Shane Carruth

Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit…

— John Michael McDonagh