Best Quote by Mike Nichols

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

— Mike Nichols

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

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

— Ray Harryhausen

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

— Richard Linklater

My sense is that you can make a film under almost any circumstances. As long as someone has a vague idea of what he's…

— Paul Morrissey

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

— Rick Heinrichs

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

— Sofia Coppola

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

— Ryan Coogler

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the…

— Mike Nichols

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling…

— Mark Ruffalo

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

— Jack Valenti

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

— Hany Abu-Assad