Cinema Quote by Roger Avary

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,…

— Jess Walter

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

— Michael Connelly

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things…

— Tom Kitt

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though…

— Andrew Lam

My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to…

— Sreenivasan

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write…

— Philip Roth

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex…

— Alex Kapranos

Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a…

— Elijah Wood

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

— Mark Webber