Filmmaking Quotes · Page 3

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

— Derek Magyar

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

— David Lynch

Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

— Garth Davis

Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.

— Doug Liman

“If I were a moviemaker I'd set about hunting sunsets.”

— Julio Cortázar

Filmmaking is a very serious job, and I want to concentrate on that.

— Varun Dhawan

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

— Osric Chau

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

— Vetrimaaran

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

I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you…

— Wayne White

Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a…

— Clea DuVall

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.…

— Syd Field

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone…

— Zoe Cassavetes

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

— Julia Leigh

The influence of Steven Spielberg to my career is unquantifiable. Every day on the set with him is a master class in…

— Caroline Goodall

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

In my world, when I'm making work, when I go to my core group of people that I've been going to for…

— Kelly Reichardt

What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car…

— Ryan Connolly

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

— Takeshi Kitano

Filmmaking these days is so technically advanced. When I started off, we had to wait for two to three months to see…

— Amala Akkineni

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

— Jason Reitman

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it…

— Jordan Peele

The MeToo movement has made everyone more professional. The trashy aspects of filmmaking are now eliminated. There is certainly fear and caution…

— Vikrant Massey

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's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.…

— Abel Ferrara

For me, filmmaking is an ongoing self-reflection process. I kind of push everything to the edge. I feel very exposed and fragile…

— Tamer El Said

“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

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

There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and…

— Tilda Swinton

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

— Sriram Raghavan

Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.

— Farah Khan

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

— Andrzej Wajda

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

— Taika Waititi

Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

— Todd Phillips

Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

— Fred Armisen

It was in Kanpur where I got exposed to the art of filmmaking.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya