Cinema Quote by Frederick Wiseman

Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it,…

— Frederick Wiseman

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

— Adele Exarchopoulos

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

— Richard Linklater

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's…

— Nicolas Cage

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not…

— John Boorman

It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I…

— Anonymous

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

— Bret Easton Ellis

There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.

— Bennett Miller

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

— John Frankenheimer

Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.

— Morgan Spurlock