Able Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever…

— Shane Carruth

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

— Emma Donoghue

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

— Neil Jordan

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

— Robert Bresson

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

— Dario Argento

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

— Fred Seibert

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to…

— Denzel Washington

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

— Diego Luna

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses,…

— Edgar Wright

The most extraordinary thing, you'd be given permission for, and then the weirdest, simplest things, you just wouldn't be able to obtain permissions. And…

— Danny Boyle

The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality.…

— Kevin Macdonald

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it…

— Rajkumar Hirani