Cinema Quote by Yorgos Lanthimos

What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the…

— Rachel McAdams

The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality.…

— Kevin Macdonald

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive,…

— Claude Chabrol

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

— Morgan Spurlock

Every time you make a film you want to put something out there and that's important to me.

— Zoya Akhtar

Because I'm a dramatist, I'm allowed to take liberties, but I want my films to be based in truth, and it's very important to…

— Sean Baker

Well, because my films are really about how people interact with each other, and the complexity, and the nuance, and the surprise of those…

— Peter Hedges

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if…

— Terry Gilliam

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

— Rick Heinrichs

Personally, I think that the story is all-important; everything else comes later. But if there's any other way to ensure the betterment of the…

— Rishi Kapoor

I don't want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don't want people who take…

— Neill Blomkamp