Communication Quote by Gil Scott-Heron

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

For my first feature film, I just wanted to write something that people can relate to, something that was real. I really wanted it…

— Terrell Suggs

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

— Kathryn Newton

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…

— Natasha Trethewey

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

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

— James Broughton

Weirdly, it's much easier to write a poem than a film.

— Tim Key

Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

— Jim Jarmusch

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

— Howard Nemerov

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience…

— Anthony Minghella