Nick Shellenbarger

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.”
― Paulo Coelho

“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
― Roger Ebert

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
― Werner Herzog

“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
― Stanley Kubrick