Alas Quote by Peter Greenaway

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

— Hideo Kojima

Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants.

— Sharat Saxena

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

— Sofia Coppola

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film…

— Gus Van Sant

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

When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the…

— Luca Guadagnino

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the…

— Wadah Khanfar

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't…

— Julia Stiles

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

— Alison Jackson

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by…

— Jason Reitman

Generally, the imagery and the text go hand in hand. It's much easier when the text comes first, but sometimes I need visual stimulation…

— Lorna Simpson

Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the…

— Javier Camara