Cinema Quote by Jack Nicholson

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills…

— Brendan Fletcher

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows…

— Lena Dunham

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

— Jeff Kinney

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a…

— Dan Gilroy

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

— Mark Webber

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on…

— Dan Chaon

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

— Dan Mazer

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it…

— Cary Fukunaga

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And…

— Lindsey Stirling

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

— Alexander Payne