Cinema Quote by James Broughton

Film has its own innate poetry.

— John Hillcoat

There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself…

— Werner Herzog

My movies are personal notes of my whole life.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

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

— Tim Key

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

— Eric Rohmer

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

— Gerard Malanga

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a…

— Alice Eve

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

— Stan Brakhage

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't…

— Jim Jarmusch

For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start in the…

— Jørgen Leth

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

— Jason Reitman

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

— Anurag Kashyap