Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways. — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a… — Clea DuVall Copy Share Image
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
I think I feel that way - that filmmaking is a responsibility, not only creatively but also financially in that it's a… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
I find reading books about music is sometimes tricky, because you can't hear it. But when you read a book about filmmaking,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
The reason I do what I do is that I find that Asian community gives me an endless source of humour. When… — Gurinder Chadha Copy Share Image
I really enjoy behind the camera stuff and I'm a frustrated photographer myself and just love the camera. I love that side… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I think I was born to be a clown. I just haven't figured out how to bring that side of myself into… — Lucas Hedges Copy Share Image
The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a… — John Landis Copy Share Image
“In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character.… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
We just assume all the great actors are in New York first and then L.A. second, and it's so not true. There's… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it -… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I… — Sophia Takal Copy Share Image
I just enjoy the filmmaking side of things. I feel like when you're an actor, sometimes you're in other people's hands and… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
“Yet in recent years I have witnessed a new phenomenon among filmgoers, especially those considered intelligent and perceptive. I have a name… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa,… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant… — Amy J. Berg Copy Share Image
The worst thing is that filmmaking is an expensive medium and money corrupts cinema right at the beginning. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so… — Dagur Kari Copy Share Image
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh… — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
“The filmmaking process taught me that I need to be authentic—in my scripts and in real life.” — John Grooters Copy Share Image
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make… — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.' — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was. — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
I, too, started off as a short filmmaker - though none of them have been screened, it served as a practice session… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
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