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.
Stanley Kubrick
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas
“The art of film can only really exist through a highly organized betrayal of reality.”
François Truffaut
Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.
Martin Scorsese