Bits Quote by Nicholas Ray

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have…

— Tom Stoppard

I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot…

— Bob Mondello

A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done with care…

— Mani Ratnam

Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking.

— Travis Fimmel

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are…

— Julia Loktev

The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they…

— Sam Shepard

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many…

— Anita Loos

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And…

— Athol Fugard

A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the…

— Edwin Catmull

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

A picture with thousands of words, the movie much be billions of words.

— Rehn Williams