Art Quote by Patricia Piccinini

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we…

— Mohsin Hamid

Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce. I think…

— Lynn Nottage

I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an…

— Debra Granik

I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint, that's so…

— Todd Haynes

Lots of musicians from non-filmi backgrounds and from independent bands are making it to mainstream cinema. Even the music directors are experimenting with different…

— Shankar Mahadevan

“In major movies these days, the fine details of music, instrumentation and sound design are lost. This is a shame, and it is one…

— Julius Dobos

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

— Robert Genn

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

— Keanu Reeves

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart…

— Howard Shore

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

— Herschell Gordon Lewis

It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined -…

— Abbas Kiarostami

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

— Kevin Smith