Art Quote by Nicolas Provost

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted…

— Mira Nair

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention…

— Peter Greenaway

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

— Alexandre Desplat

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

— James Gray

[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my…

— Nicolas Provost

Cinema is ultimately a work of art, it is all about sound and visuals.

— Joy Mathew

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into…

— Sydney Pollack

What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.

— Patrice Leconte

Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because…

— Lucy Dacus

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.

— Harshvardhan Rane

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

— Madonna Ciccone