Cinema Quote by Peter Bogdanovich

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

— Sofia Coppola

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are…

— Wong Kar-wai

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

— Darren Aronofsky

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which…

— Nicole Kidman

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

— Rick Heinrichs

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

— Ray Harryhausen

It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and touches as…

— Francis Lawrence

One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I guess it's easier to get things made when you know the story you want to tell, you know the characters you want to…

— Kate Mara

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the…

— Mike Nichols