Filmmaking Quotes · Page 33

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and…

— Anonymous

“Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and…

— Abhijit Naskar

I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than…

— Paul Auster

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

— Darren Aronofsky

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I think that filmmaking is very addicting and risky, and it gives you a high, for sure.

— Ryan Fleck

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really…

— Lily Cole

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it…

— Pooja Bhatt

I found that direction is the most enjoyable part in filmmaking. The easiest and most comfortable is acting and the loneliest and…

— Anoop Menon

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

— Gillian Jacobs

Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.

— Bennett Miller

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always…

— Damian Kulash

At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema,…

— George Hickenlooper

3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic…

— Neil Marshall

The goal with 'X' was to make you think about filmmaking, and think about horror filmmaking, and hopefully just be like, pumped.

— Ti West

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

— Charlize Theron

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I…

— Darren Aronofsky

I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little…

— Todd Haynes

“Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

— Artie Kane

I think that's the process of filmmaking all the way through: building things and taking it apart and building it, and, you…

— Kelly Reichardt

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I…

— Shia LaBeouf

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

— Rachel Morrison