Film Quote by Kevin Macdonald

The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French…

— Kevin Macdonald

Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that…

— Kevin Macdonald

I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one…

— Boyd Holbrook

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

— Francois Truffaut

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that…

— Pedro Almodovar

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to…

— Ava DuVernay

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my…

— David Ayer

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

— Walt Disney

Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and worked their…

— Roger Corman

“A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands…

— Paul Auster

Film has to describe and show.

— Ralph Bakshi