Audience Quote by Manuel Puig

When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.

— Nandita Das

I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate…

— Anthony Hopkins

You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see…

— Quentin Tarantino

If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's…

— Shane Carruth

I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.

— Kathleen Kennedy

Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.

— Frederick Lenz

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

— Werner Herzog

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

— Roger Deakins

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

— Jenni Olson

On film, you really have to focus on what you're looking at. You're imprinting a physical image.

— Petra Collins

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

— John Cassavetes