Happy Birthday, Ali! #thelastvictim

“If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. ” — Stanley Kubrick #film #movie #stanleykubrick

‘In a mad world, only the mad are sane.’ — Akira Kurosawa #movie #film #akirakurosawa

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” — Orson Welles #film #movies #film #movie #cinema #indiefilm #MovieMonday

‘Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.’ — Meryl Streep #indiefilm #movies #movie #merylstreep #cinema

‘Don’t chase trends; create them. Be a pioneer in your craft, and your work will leave a lasting legacy.’ — Oliver Stone #film #cinema #movies #indiefilm #filmmakers Oliver Stone

Sound design (and the mix) can be the difference between an average film and a masterpiece. “Sound is half the experience….” “Sound can tell you more about a character’s internal life than the visuals ever can.” — Walter Murch (re-recording mixer of Apocalypse Now, THX 1138,

“I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.” — Vangelis A titan and cosmic pioneer of Synth and Electronic Music — Oscar-winning composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner. #filmmaking #fimmaker #composer #cinema #film #movies #bladerunner

“I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.” — Spike Lee (academy award winning director of Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X) Spike #dotherightthing #junglefever #movies #cinema #indiefilm

“I got into sound, which is great because sound is a wonderful background for editing in terms of rhythm. Sound and silence are so important in a film. …I think it helped me become a better picture editor.” — Dede Allen (Academy Award nominee and Pioneering Film Editor of

‘You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.’ — Francis Ford Coppola #movies #cinema #indiefilm #GodFather #apocalypsenow #filmmaker #Director #theconversation

“Sometimes a dream almost whispers… it never shouts. Very hard to hear. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear. ” -– Steven Spielberg #movies #cinema #indiefilm #IndianaJones #jaws #filmmaker #Director #theconversation

“I’m drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I’m drawn to that consistently.” — Kathryn Bigelow Academy Award Winning Director of ‘The Hurt Locker’, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, ‘Point Break’ — often credited as the director who “shaped

“Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person [the actor], possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.” — Al Pacino The Godfather #scarface Tony Montana #movies #cinema #indiefilm #scarface #godfather #serpico #filmmaker #actor

Well put Naval!