Behinds Quote by William Monahan

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

— Sam Mendes

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

— Michael Connelly

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about…

— Kevin Wilson

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the…

— Dave McCary

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

— Anurag Kashyap

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.

— Ruskin Bond

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

— Harry Knowles

For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to…

— John Van Hamersveld

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not…

— Jonathan Raymond

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

— Bruce Feirstein

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen…

— Mary Steenburgen