Filmmaking Quotes · Page 6

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

— Derek Magyar

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

— Henry Selick

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

— Greg MacGillivray

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

— John Waters

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

— Shia LaBeouf

Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.

— Bruce Feirstein

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

— Molly Ringwald

I didn't really learn how to figure out this filmmaking life from any book.

— Kelly Reichardt

I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

— Laura Dern

Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We…

— Claire Denis

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

— Werner Herzog

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

— Christophe Agou

I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

— Charlize Theron

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking.…

— Eran Creevy

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a…

— Alain Resnais

From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to…

— Diane Lane

I take particular care in authenticity and specificity when working in cultures not my own. Every aspect of the filmmaking here was…

— Niki Caro

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they…

— Louie Schwartzberg

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I…

— Jason Reitman

Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:…

— Takeshi Kitano

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking,…

— Anna Boden

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes…

— Jason Reitman

The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little…

— Glenn McQuaid

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not…

— Todd Solondz

John Belushi infused Animal House with this spirit of guerilla filmmaking. John Landis came from that world too, and all the National…

— Tim Matheson

We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion…

— Simon Pegg

I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general. I want to try and…

— Joe Swanberg

“All film technique, I am convinced (and like many of my theories I am probably alone in adhering to it), originates in…

— William Boyd

Once I hit 25, I realized I had to do more than just be an actor. I love acting, but there's something…

— Fisher Stevens

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can…

— Jean Renoir

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

— Gaspar Noe

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

— Vera Farmiga

“Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.”

— A.D. Posey

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

— Daniel Wu

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

— Peter Jackson

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.

— Renee O'Connor

Director Aji John has a style of filmmaking that will surely appeal to all.

— Meghana Raj