Film Quote by Hany Abu-Assad

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

— Abbas Kiarostami

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality…

— Ramin Bahrani

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in…

— Bradley Cooper

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

— Ryan Coogler

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

— Ray Harryhausen

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that…

— Ava DuVernay

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

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

— Ryan Coogler

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

— Mario Van Peebles

I've had my best experience as a filmmaker with true stories about real people and real cultures.

— Niki Caro

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