Cinema Quote by Nicolas Winding Refn

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors…

— Derek Cianfrance

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to…

— Peter Jackson

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that…

— Josh Radnor

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something…

— Stanley Kubrick

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

— Ravi Subramanian

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when…

— John le Carre

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

— Jeff Kinney

You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from…

— Summer Glau

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you…

— William Mapother

Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of…

— Owen Pallett

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If…

— Dan Brown

We shoot in film. This means that we're making our movie during the shooting and not in post-production.

— Alice Rohrwacher