Add Quote by Robert Forster

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

— Harrison Ford

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret…

— Mary Ellen Mark

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

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

— David Mamet

As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and…

— Cary Fukunaga

It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in…

— Robert Redford

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots,…

— Eric Bana

The cinematographer's basically translating the director's vision into imagery.

— Rachel Morrison

It's kind of up to the actor to deconstruct the scene and deconstruct the character and figure out how to make it real. That's…

— Shawn Hatosy

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.

— Tom Hanks

It is truly connected to your job as an actor, and it benefits the character and the entire film to build a collaborative environment.

— Fred Hechinger