Cinema Quote by Panos Cosmatos

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

But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

As the director, you have to hold in your head the widest possible vision. Not just the idea and the story, but the conceptual…

— Sally Potter

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

— Adrian Pasdar

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

— Jan de Bont

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems,…

— Rouben Mamoulian

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

— Jitendra Kumar

Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and…

— Steven Knight

“Screwed up and incomprehensible as it may seem to a rank outsider, making a movie is a lot like living life. You work with…

— J.A. Jance

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a…

— Peter Jackson

Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.

— Morgan Spurlock

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

— Yann Martel