Filmmaking Quotes · Page 13

Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.

— Travis Knight

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

— Satyajit Ray

Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming,…

— James Woods

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

— John Cassavetes

I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much…

— Mark Romanek

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the…

— Ira Sachs

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I…

— Darren Aronofsky

There are all kinds of things evolving in filmmaking I'm not sure I'm comfortable with. A friend of mine just showed me…

— Alan Taylor

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the…

— Richard Linklater

At its best, MTV puts a face to the names, if you know what I mean. I think if you can take…

— John Rzeznik

I love filmmaking when fate is a part of the process and you are dependent on the laws of physics and the…

— Larry Fessenden

Movies and television show build on top of each other, succeed one another. In a large way, in terms of filmmaking aesthetics,…

— Sam Esmail

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by…

— Andrzej Wajda

I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out…

— Hiro Murai

I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t…

— J. J. Abrams

“People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.”

— Amit Kalantri

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish…

— Andrzej Wajda

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

— Jim Sturgess

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide…

— Charlize Theron

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

In films, you have to follow the director's vision. Filmmaking is a director's medium. So everything happens as per the script and…

— Amit Trivedi

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of…

— Gary Cole

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

— Roger Deakins

The goal with 'X' was to make you think about filmmaking, and think about horror filmmaking, and hopefully just be like, pumped.

— Ti West

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

— Tony Gilroy

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

— William Goldman

People should be good, established people; the filmmaking and acting experience should be heartening. So I chose films where I would get…

— Tabu

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

— Alex Gibney

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be…

— Abbas Kiarostami

My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.

— Brad Pitt

“Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and…

— Abhijit Naskar

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's…

— David O. Russell

“Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is…

— Craig Mapp

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

— Justin Chadwick

“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is…

— Clive Barker