Film making Quotes · Page 2

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The preseason's all about getting good film out there, making the most of the opportunities that you get.

— Taysom Hill

“Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

— Darren Aronofsky

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

— Abhijit Naskar

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I enjoy production more than acting, as one is involved in many aspects of film-making.

— Pooja Bhatt

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

— Karthik Subbaraj

I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the…

— Charles Sturridge

Whatever film I'm making, no matter how harsh or edgy it is, there has to be a core underneath the ebb and…

— Shane Black

I read Pamela Colloff's oral history about the campus shooting, '96 Minutes,' when it was first published, and my wheels immediately starting…

— Keith Maitland

The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made…

— Alex Winter

I love independent film making. So much real love and passion go into them and you can feel it while you watch.…

— Alicia Sixtos

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something…

— Roger Corman

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected…

— Julie Delpy

I think making a film and making a TV show and using images illustratively and telling the story through images is different…

— RaMell Ross

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting…

— John Musker

It's so important for me to keep a good house. I take a lot of pleasure in cooking and I think there…

— Aparna Sen

“So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it’s fast and sometimes it’s…

— Steven Soderbergh

My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else…

— Karan Johar

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess…

— Domhnall Gleeson

I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first…

— Miranda Otto

With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Unfortunately, when you're working in film, it's this huge machine, and you've got to get everyone right there, so you get kind…

— Darren Aronofsky

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

— David Lynch

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is…

— Alan Lightman

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

— Kate Winslet

I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully…

— Amruta Khanvilkar

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

— Duncan Jones

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

— Guy Ritchie

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

— Bernadette Peters

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

— Tilda Swinton

In film-making, so much can go wrong, and I feel like the same is with life, right?

— Kate Herron

Film making to me is a lot like parts of my life. I wish to edit out certain scenes but dammit it…

— Jennifer Amorelli

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

— Alicia Vikander