“I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.” IfsHas BeensArtAbleFictionNarrativeFilmmakerVisualsCartoonistVisual Art Author:Jonathan Lethem
“I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.” WayFictionFilmmakerFilmmakingDocumentariesHeadings Author:Lucy Walker
“It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.” IfsWorldSaidTwoFilmFictionMillionsFilmmakerDocumentaries Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.” KnowsBelieveWellsBigsLyingDifferencesFictionHonestInvolvedDon't BelieveLike MeFilmmakerOrganizedDocumentaries Author:Peter Greenaway
“When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.” PeopleWritingKindDifferentFictionWorryFieldsPoetCrossesPerformancesGenreFilmmakerOccupationCommentMixingWorkshopsFiction WritersAnthropologistsWriting WorkshopMixing It Up Author:Sandra Cisneros
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” ShouldFeelingsFilmEmotionBehindsFictionDirectorsMoodFilmmakerMovieThemeFilmmakingProgressionFilm DirectorsMovie DirectorRelay RacesFilm DirectingDirecting FilmIndependent Filmmaking Author:Stanley Kubrick