Cinema Quote by Hal Hartley

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my…

— Dario Argento

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

— James Mangold

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

— Terry Southern

A filmmaker has to have great vision in order to tell a compelling story that is both distinctive and stylistic. I remember playing all…

— Nicholas Ozeki

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

I think that movies are really fake; they should be fake. I don't think my way is any better than anybody else's way, but…

— Steven Conrad

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

— Morgan Neville

Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and…

— Abdellah Taia

Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can…

— Woody Allen

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

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If…

— Dan Brown