Filmmaking Quotes · Page 19

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have…

— Nicolas Cage

I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're…

— Oliver Stone

Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I…

— Mike Birbiglia

All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you…

— Alexander Payne

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

— Takeshi Kitano

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or…

— John Lasseter

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing.…

— Jack Nicholson

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

— Osric Chau

I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

— Ruben Ostlund

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now…

— John Baldacci

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

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

— Baz Luhrmann

When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person,…

— Lauren Greenfield

I don't think I have too many filmmaking years left since I hurt my spine and knee.

— Aparna Sen

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

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

— Ted Kotcheff

I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux…

— Charlton Heston

What Joe and I get excited by, creatively, is exploring all of the different forms of filmmaking.

— Anthony Russo

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

Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to…

— Wim Wenders

It makes sense for an actor to space out his releases. But filmmaking is unpredictable.

— Naga Chaitanya

There are no tangents in filmmaking. Every part of the process informs another.

— Fred Hechinger