Filmmaking Quotes · Page 14

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

— Olivia Thirlby

Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to…

— Rajkumar Hirani

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you…

— Mark Ruffalo

“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate…

— Spike Lee

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches…

— Wim Wenders

Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

— Hector Babenco

I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school.

— Lee Isaac Chung

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a…

— Michael Haneke

Maybe many directors are trying to create their own style of filmmaking, or to respond to audiences that come expect a certain…

— Takashi Miike

“If you think that you can hide what your interests are, what your prurient interests are, what your noble interests are, what…

— David Fincher

The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the…

— Nina Jacobson

Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an…

— Victor Salva

I've been told that some guy wrote something like, 'Andy Serkis does everything, animators do nothing.' Of course I never in a…

— Andy Serkis

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So…

— John Dykstra

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult,…

— Steven Spielberg

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest…

— Fede Alvarez

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

— Kathryn Bigelow

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

— Zal Batmanglij

Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not…

— Luc Dardenne

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual…

— Gabriel Campisi

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was…

— Sacha Gervasi

If you're a fan of auteur filmmaking, I'd say get yourself invested in some really good TV shows.

— Joe Russo

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

— Christopher Nolan

I have an inherent interest in filmmaking and equipment. Some of my best friends are technicians.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

Sometimes when the process of filmmaking gets too self-serious, you are full of fear and operate from a place of fear or…

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

— Eddie Redmayne

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

— Regina King

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about…

— Jon Bernthal

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at…

— Gordon Parks

It's interesting, but I literally will not compromise for anybody. That's for wrestling, filmmaking, anything I do outside of the ring.

— Darby Allin

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

— Jack Nicholson

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from…

— Liz Garbus

I think sound is a huge part of my filmmaking process and it's a part of the narrative for me.

— Ti West

For me, it doesn't matter what kind of role I am doing. I just enjoy the process of acting and filmmaking.

— Akshaye Khanna

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

— Minnie Driver

Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: The Seven Samurai, Lawrence…

— Steven Spielberg

'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had…

— Oren Peli

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

— Barbara Kopple