Filmmaking Quotes · Page 34

My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.

— Brad Pitt

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for…

— Denis Villeneuve

I thought about quitting filmmaking, just because it was becoming so difficult for me.

— Lee Isaac Chung

At its best, MTV puts a face to the names, if you know what I mean. I think if you can take…

— John Rzeznik

They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if…

— Tod Goldberg

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

— Kim Ji-woon

“Film is that much powerful to show any negative fact through a very positive way.”

— Maria Tusar Filmmaker Bangladesh

'Your Name' is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium. When…

— Makoto Shinkai

I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of…

— Doug Liman

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can…

— M. Night Shyamalan

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express the Transcendent, an experience cannot. A form…

— Paul Schrader

I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual…

— Gabriel Campisi

I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to…

— Jim Carrey

When you are scripting, the scene, the dialogues, everything comes before you, taking final shape. That is truly the most creative aspect…

— Balachandra Menon

I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But…

— Vivek Shraya

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

— Herschell Gordon Lewis

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

— Steve McQueen

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary,…

— Eli Roth

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it…

— Ang Lee

For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on…

— Alan Mak

I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of…

— Tilda Swinton

“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the…

— Matthew Perry