Acting Quote by Stanley Kubrick

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors…

— Derek Cianfrance

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

— Clint Eastwood

What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception through production…

— Peter Vack

Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and…

— Abdellah Taia

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with,…

— Stephen Daldry

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

— Jay Duplass

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I believe writing is where it all begins; you can not make a film look different, you have to write it differently.

— Rakshit Shetty

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that…

— Josh Radnor

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.

— Ari Aster

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage,…

— Bernard Sahlins