Conscious Quote by Frederick Wiseman

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

— Frederick Wiseman

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

With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick to the…

— Rajkumar Hirani

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

— Adele Exarchopoulos

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

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we…

— Errol Morris

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.…

— Ingmar Bergman

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 whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

— Rhys Ifans

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

— Richard Linklater

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and…

— Jean Rouch

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev