“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
— Martin Scorsese
“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy is a long shot.” — Buster Keaton
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” –Orson Welles
“A movie isn’t good or bad because of what it is about, but how it is about.” – – Roger Ebert
“There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.” — Daniel Dennett
“In the script it is written, and on the screen it’s pictures.”
— Fritz Lang in Contempt
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” –Alfred Hitchcock
“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.” –Jean-Luc Godard
“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. ”–E.L. Doctorow
Well, Here's Another Nice Mess . . . 