Book Quote by Yann Martel

One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I…

— Joel Edgerton

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which…

— Todd Haynes

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach…

— Clark Johnson

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things…

— Rick Alverson

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which…

— Nicole Kidman

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If…

— James Franco

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

— Darren Aronofsky

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

— Yann Martel