Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking. — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing. — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being. — Mark Polish Copy Share Image
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking]… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
X' was a movie that in some ways was about how independent filmmaking had an effect on people. 'Pearl' in many ways… — Ti West Copy Share Image
Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit.… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My… — Alrick Brown Copy Share Image
I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in… — Darius Khondji Copy Share Image
Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I'm not good at anything else. I just don't have a talent for anything other than filmmaking. Luckily, it's worked out. — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to give a performance that makes you unaware of the fact that you're watching an actor and be really… — Regina King Copy Share Image
Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film. — Ram Gopal Varma Copy Share Image
Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different. — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking,… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick… — Dave McCary Copy Share Image
'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary,… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv. — James Franco Copy Share Image
I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by. — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the… — John Kahrs Copy Share Image
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The great thing about 'Fargo' is that it's a more objective style of filmmaking: the camera moves in very classical ways, and… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I didn't know the technical language of filmmaking, so I said, 'OK, I'm going to do my own storyboard,' because I had… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
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