Filmmaking Quotes · Page 19

Many people don't understand that in filmmaking, if you make a fundamental mistake, everything goes wrong - but you don't realise it…

— Ram Gopal Varma

I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is…

— Alain Resnais

I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers…

— Gary Oldman

The Eighties were the last decade where the actual filmmaking was still treated with some respect, even if it was horror.

— Ti West

The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.

— Marc Platt

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to…

— Ingmar Bergman

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

— Ramona S. Diaz

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the…

— Rani Mukerji

There's a very interesting article or symposium to be written on just the real difference between comedy filmmaking and non-comedy. Because, you…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that…

— Jimmy Chin

You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is…

— Albert Brooks

I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling…

— Ben Burtt

You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until…

— Fred Schepisi

You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what…

— Rick Moranis

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

— Vicky Kaushal

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

— Sergio Leone

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

— Dermot Mulroney

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

— Timur Bekmambetov

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do…

— Errol Morris

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out…

— Mike Leigh

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You…

— Spike Lee

Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's…

— Alex Garland

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

— Lena Dunham

I found that direction is the most enjoyable part in filmmaking. The easiest and most comfortable is acting and the loneliest and…

— Anoop Menon

At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words.

— Karthik Subbaraj

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

— Tom Stoppard

Filmmaking has been my love since my mother brought me to see James Whale's 'Frankenstein' at the local library at the age…

— Sean Baker

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what…

— Yahoo Serious

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

— Mark Webber

That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.

— Michelle Yeoh

I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera,…

— Nicolas Cowan

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

— Gillian Jacobs

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

— Jeff Bridges

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going…

— Ryan Kwanten

“Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides…

— Abhijit Naskar

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line…

— Gale Anne Hurd