I started filmmaking when I started surfing, so the two things have been with me since I was 12 years old, so… — Taylor Steele Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is, a sort of uncontrolled process. I think it's very important to be open to the unexpected and at the same… — Dagur Kari Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians.… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a passion for me. Plus, that is what I do to make a living. — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.” — Darlene Craviotto Copy Share Image
I've come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
Filmmaking these days is so technically advanced. When I started off, we had to wait for two to three months to see… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image