Filmmaking Quotes · Page 9

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

— Dee Rees

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

— Signe Baumane

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

— Guy Ritchie

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

— James Franco

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

— Barry Jenkins

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

— Robert Greene

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

— Terry Gilliam

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the…

— Michael Biehn

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the…

— Richard Donner

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

— Ted Kotcheff

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

— Baz Luhrmann

I'm quite often interested in writing and sculpture, installation, and photography, obviously, just as much as filmmaking.

— RaMell Ross

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is…

— Catherine Hardwicke

It's important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.

— Ginevra Elkann

There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.

— Justin Lin

There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes…

— Andrew Neel

With filmmaking, I for so long was like, oh, I need permission to go out and be a director and be a…

— Kate Herron

I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't…

— Kim Longinotto

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For…

— Takashi Miike

My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early…

— Elisa Kreisinger

I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget…

— Mark Duplass

I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you…

— Oren Peli

You can't print everything and that's not good for filmmaking, because you wanna have as many options as possible and print as…

— Logan Lerman

I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

“Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds…

— Abhijit Naskar

There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make…

— Debra Granik

In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time…

— Quentin Tarantino

There are people - I think this is why there are so many commercial directors doing well in big studio movies, for…

— Ti West

We with Komplizen Film believe very much in the writer-director and in the freedom of a filmmaker. I think it's always good…

— Maren Ade

I love that about filmmaking - seeing final product and getting to see everyone else that you don't necessarily engage with on…

— Jai Courtney

The good thing about being in advertising was a lot of the skills cross over: you have to be accountable for your…

— Victor Levin

Filmmaking seems more difficult but theatre comes with its own challenges.

— Puneet Issar

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

— Seth Gordon

“A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of…

— Abhijit Naskar

The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.

— Nandita Das

Filmmaking is something that I'm really passionate about. Film, in general, is something that I'm passionate about.

— Paul Wesley

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks…

— Nicholas Ozeki

I don't think it would be possible for me to respect people like Ridley Scott or James Cameron more than I already…

— Paul W. S. Anderson