Audience Quote by Zoe Lister-Jones

I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no…

— Dorothy Arzner

It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats?…

— Gerard Butler

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try…

— Brad Bird

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

I think that in making a genre movie, you have a really great opportunity to use abstraction to allow the audience to project their…

— Miles Robbins

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the…

— Don Cheadle

I strongly believe film should create conversations around themes we are grappling with as a society.

— Stacy Martin

Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a…

— Ken Loach

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd…

— Steve McQueen

A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.

— Rouben Mamoulian

I see my filming career as an opportunity to get the message of conservation out to an even greater audience.

— Bindi Irwin

Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to…

— Emmanuel Benbihy