| "A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ‘Oh, I don’t like it.’ One might say it’s the best muffin ever made. One might say it’s an awful muffin. It’s hard for me to say. It’s for me to make the muffin." Denzel Washington |
"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes." Robert Altman |
"I study history in order to give an interpretation." Oliver Stone |
"I am dealing with history." Ken Burns |
"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music." Frank Capra |
| "...but having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences
- is very, very important to actually being able to make movies." George Lucas |
"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything,
and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades,
fear of not staying with your class, etc.
Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle." Stanley Kubrick |
"I was never restricted. I was never told what to do." Ray Harryhausen |
"We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it." Ethan Coen |
"I dream for a living." Steven Spielberg |





