Audience Quote by Kabir Khan

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

— Peter Greenaway

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

— Mick Garris

Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we want to…

— Tamlyn Tomita

I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have a purpose…

— Charlie McDowell

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

— Ray Harryhausen

The movies aren't going anywhere, because telling stories is how people communicate.

— Ti West

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience…

— Anthony Minghella

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of…

— Noomi Rapace

It's a privilege to tell stories on film. It can be a great community to live a professional life. All of us that do…

— Niki Caro

“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is…

— Jonathan Nolan

I want to work with filmmakers who have been trying to say something through their stories.

— Sanjay Mishra