Cinema Quote by Paul Ryan

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

— Lars von Trier

Video looks like reality, it's more immediate, it has a verite surface to it. Film has this liquid kind of surface, feels like something…

— Michael Mann

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those…

— Robert Bresson

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and…

— Annie Baker

Film is a tool of change.

— Diego Luna

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to…

— Mira Nair

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and…

— David Ayer

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing,…

— Kenneth Lonergan

Film can do lots of things: It can produce alternative ideas, ask questions, just record the reality of what's happening, it can analyze what's…

— Ken Loach

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

— Robert Zemeckis

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to…

— Ava DuVernay

Films typically peddle in meaning with big things and make connections between events. They don't peddle in images in the same way which in…

— RaMell Ross