Art Quote by Neill Blomkamp

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

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go…

— Gemma Arterton

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

— Rhys Ifans

In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I…

— Kevin Smith

Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits…

— Dee Rees

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to…

— Spike Jonze

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun…

— Woody Allen

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

— Marilyn Nelson

I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to live differently…

— Jim Carrey

I think negative characters need to be cast in the best possible way because it has an impact on the film.

— Mukesh Rishi

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be…

— Frederick Wiseman

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride…

— Rick McCallum