Filmmaking Quotes · Page 10

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and…

— Paul Greengrass

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'

— James Wan

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the…

— Sally Potter

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different…

— Antoine Fuqua

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to…

— J. Lee Thompson

I do feel like in filmmaking you are largely in control of the perception of you. If you want to be seen…

— Leigh Whannell

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy,…

— Werner Herzog

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

— Jehane Noujaim

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

X' was a movie that in some ways was about how independent filmmaking had an effect on people. 'Pearl' in many ways…

— Ti West

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

I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the…

— William H. Macy

How I'm portrayed in films has more to do with the filmmaking and what they need in the story than anything else.…

— Alex Honnold

My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My…

— Alrick Brown

The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to…

— Vin Diesel

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

I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a…

— Rory Kennedy

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make…

— Richard Donner

I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

— Sam Jaeger

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.

— Tony Kaye

I, too, started off as a short filmmaker - though none of them have been screened, it served as a practice session…

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which…

— Takeshi Kitano

It's been a dream to work alongside the talented team at Lucasfilm and ILM to make advancements and improvements to the filmmaking…

— Greig Fraser

The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with…

— Michael Seresin

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit…

— Frederic Tcheng

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

— Paul Schrader

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

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

— Robert Duvall

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to…

— Bill Vaughan

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals.…

— Neill Blomkamp

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

— Felicity Jones

I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's…

— Charlize Theron

The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration…

— David O. Russell

That's the magic of filmmaking. When you are on sets 18-20 hours of the day for two-three months at a stretch, the…

— Varun Sharma

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

— James Franco

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

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

— Rick Heinrichs

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

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way…

— Steven Spielberg