Art Quote by Werner Herzog

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

“One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."…

— Mike Mankoff

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

— Brett Morgen

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into…

— Gillian Flynn

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works,…

— Philip Kitcher

I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.

— Bruce LaBruce

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

— Eric Rohmer

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer,…

— William Strunk, Jr

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do…

— Julie Andrews

“the surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definite, and concrete. The greatest writers—Homer, Dante, Shakespeare—are…

— Robert W. Bly

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

— John Hurt