Cinema Quote by Roger Deakins

Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have…

— Miguel Sapochnik

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing…

— Al Pacino

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and…

— Lars von Trier

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

I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into…

— Thomas Jane

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

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an…

— Wong Kar-wai

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one…

— Andre Øvredal

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its…

— Nicolas Roeg

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make…

— Robert Carlyle

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever…

— David Fincher