Cinema Quote by Terry Southern

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

— Ken Loach

As films are a mass medium, if more people love your work, it is better.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

— Tom Perrotta

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and…

— Steven Knight

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure…

— Henry Selick

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you…

— Hal Hartley

Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of…

— Owen Pallett

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

— Barry Jenkins