Any Quote by Shane Carruth

I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is…

— Jonathan Nolan

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

— Ken Loach

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing,…

— Kenneth Lonergan

Whenever you make a film, all you really want is for an audience to connect with it in some way.

— Gareth Evans

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie actors, they…

— Jenova Chen

According to me, a film can talk for itself. Like, Aamir Khan does not promote his films on a large scale, but his films…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it…

— Dave McKean

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise…

— Larry Cohen

“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When…

— Alfred Hitchcock

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which…

— Nicole Kidman

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express…

— Atom Egoyan

One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film…

— Cheo Hodari Coker