Author-advice Quote by Sarah Gerdes

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it…

— Rajkumar Hirani

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

— Rob Marshall

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author's intimate truth will be convincing enough for the audience…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.

— Parvathy

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a…

— Rostam Batmanglij

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love…

— Kevin Macdonald

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film…

— William S. Burroughs

It's the director who holds the key to the success of a film.

— Devi Sri Prasad

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

— Emma Donoghue