About Quote by Richard Linklater

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

— Frederick Wiseman

It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do.

— Simon Beaufoy

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for…

— David Puttnam

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

— Ben Whishaw

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie…

— Jose Padilha

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

— John Milius

Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling.

— Nia DaCosta

We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to…

— Charles Burnett

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent…

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Morgan Spurlock

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

— Donnie Yen