Art Quote by Haruki Murakami

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

— James Mangold

“So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even…

— Salman Rushdie

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

— William Friedkin

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring…

— Robert Towne

“Movies, after all, are only an illusion of motion comprised of thousands of still photographs. The imagination, however, moves with its own tidal flow.”

— Stephen King

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

— Morgan Spurlock

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't - like…

— Tom Savini

“Hollywood raised us. Your mind processes the world through a filter formed by comic books and action movies on Cinemax. That's why kids put…

— David Wong

I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.

— Paul Morrissey

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to…

— Paul McGann