Bags Quote by Steven Spielberg

“An author is an expert in the written word. The author must make a choice; to either trust and support the filmmaker’s approach, or…

— Sarah Gerdes

“Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even…

— Bryan Forbes

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

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's,…

— Rod Lurie

In most films, when we act, we don't see such meanings in what we do. Rather, we don't realise it. Only when we see…

— Mohanlal

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion…

— John Steinbeck

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Most of filmmaking is common sense. If you stay on your toes and think about how to do a thing, it’s right there.”

— David Lynch

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

— William Golding

“You know you're a writer when the words don't stop!”

— Joyce Middleton

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is…

— Morley Callaghan

When you make a film, you never know how it will turn out, especially when you improvise it.

— Thomas Middleditch