Cinema Quote by Thomas Bidegain

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

— Jim Piddock

I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that was really…

— Curtis Hanson

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

— Obie Trice

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

— Cate Blanchett

I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that…

— Jonathan Franzen

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life.…

— Leos Carax

I put in a lot of work in film study.

— Christian McCaffrey

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

— Alexander Payne

Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because…

— Lucy Dacus

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I would definitely want to essay meatier roles in good films.

— Rituparna Sengupta