Books Quote by Stanley Kubrick

According to me, one composer should do one film.

— Jeet Gannguli

“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.”

— Leslie Austin

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

— Jean Renoir

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

— Sidney Sheldon

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

— Diablo Cody

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

— Katherine Anne Porter

The difference between one writer and the other, or one director and the other, is the way he deals with a scene.

— Sreenivasan

Every film-maker while writing a screenplay comes to a landmark point in the plot where he thinks a scene can be narrated musically.

— Manoj Kumar

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists working together…

— George Pelecanos