Filmmaking quotes
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting
-- Abel Ferrara -
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
-- Alexander Payne -
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
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Be what we make, and not who we are.
-- Catherine Breillat -
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
-- Christopher Nolan -
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
-- Claire Denis -
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
-- Darren Aronofsky -
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I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium
-- Daryl Hannah -
You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.
-- David Ayer -
I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.
-- Derek Magyar -
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I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.
-- Derek Magyar -
For me, I see filmmaking as art.
-- Emily Browning -
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
-- Frank Capra -
There are no rules in filmmaking
-- Frank Capra -
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Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
-- Greg Kinnear -
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
-- Gus Van Sant -
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
-- Gus Van Sant -
You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.
-- Guy Ritchie -
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I view filmmaking as a director's medium.
-- James Franco -
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
-- James Franco -
Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.
-- James McAvoy -
Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
-- John Cassavetes -
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Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
-- Julia Leigh -
I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
-- Lars von Trier -
Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
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Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
-- Michael Keaton -
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
-- Michel Hazanavicius -
But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
-- Minnie Driver -
John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
-- Molly Ringwald -
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For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
-- Neil Jordan -
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
-- Peter Jackson -
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
-- Robert Altman -
Filmmaking is a real craft.
-- Sean Durkin -
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I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
-- Seth Gordon -
Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.
-- Shane Carruth -
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.
-- Shane Carruth -
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
-- Steven Spielberg -
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Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
-- Terry Gilliam -
I really got into filmmaking through photography.
-- Todd Phillips -
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
-- Werner Herzog -
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
-- Yahoo Serious -
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My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.
-- Alrick Brown -
I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.
-- Dagur Kari -
Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.
-- Eran Creevy -
Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.
-- Gaspar Noe -
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That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in many ways. It's a relationship between what you thought might have been the story, and what happens in the 'field.'
-- Gordon Quinn -
Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.
-- Greg MacGillivray -
Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.
-- Justin Chadwick -
Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.
-- Renee O'Connor -
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One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.
-- Rick Heinrichs -
This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.
-- Steve Antin -
To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.
-- Taika Waititi -
I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.
-- Takashi Miike -
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In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.
-- Mark Sheppard -
The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.
-- Nandita Das -
It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a hundred other places we can try. I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully. But I think there are far fewer options now to releasing a movie theatrically or to getting the financing.
-- Nicole Holofcener -
To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.
-- Don Hertzfeldt -
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When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
-- Jehane Noujaim -
I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be going back into studio filmmaking with a different sense of their own agency, and a different sense of the respect that they can command. When you asked the question about whether women want to be making big studio movies, the answer is almost always yes. It's just, how do they want to be treated? What is that experience going to be? And if you know the experience is gonna be shitty going into it, I personally am at a place where I'm not willing to punish myself any longer.
-- Karyn Kusama -
I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.
-- Kelly Reichardt
