Cinema Quote by Tracy Letts

The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I…

— Charlie Kaufman

A certain kind of film is a big theatrical film and a certain kind of film isn't. It doesn't bother me so much that…

— Richard Linklater

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are…

— Al Pacino

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

— Sydney Pollack

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it…

— Donal Logue

When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not…

— Jonathan Demme

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to…

— John Hurt

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a…

— Henry Jackman

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the…

— Kyle MacLachlan

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to…

— Thomston

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

— Tracy Letts

Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in…

— Daniel Clowes