Cinema Quote by Eric Rohmer

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

— James Broughton

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

— Stan Brakhage

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in…

— Khaled Hosseini

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

— Frank Darabont

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things…

— Rick Alverson

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

— Martin Scorsese

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

My sensibility is such that I automatically get drawn to films that have a good story, good characterization.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an…

— Alice Hoffman

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things…

— Jim Jarmusch