Each Friday, a CINE Award-winner, Board member, staffer, juror or FOC (“Friend of CINE”) will select a favorite quote, either from a film or about filmmaking/creativity, and explain why it’s a favorite.

Today: Wendy Revel, CINE’s Executive Director.

“It starts with the writer – it’s a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No filmmaker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.”
- Steven Spielberg

Unless you’re doing a sweet, compelling animated film like Sebastian’s Voodoo or Reach - CINE Award winners, both – you can’t have a movie without people talking, so somebody’s got to write the script. And as Mel Brooks said, “Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.” And now you just got two quotes for the price of one!

Do you have a favorite quote? Email it to info@cine.org with the subject “Friday Film Quote” and we’ll see you back here next Friday.

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Previous “Friday Film Quotes”
March 12, 2010
March 5, 2010
February 26, 2010
February 19, 2010
February 12, 2010
February 5, 2010