Filmmaking Quotes · Page 6

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

— Robert Greene

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

— Barry Jenkins

“Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.

— Jafar Panahi

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

— Dee Rees

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

— Greg Kinnear

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

— Nicolas Cage

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

— Brendan Fraser

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking.…

— Eran Creevy

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they…

— Ben Whishaw

“Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become…

— Werner Herzog

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

— Ed Wood

I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

— Laura Dern

I'm very influenced by documentary filmmaking and independent filmmaking, by a lot of noir and films from the '40s. Those are my…

— Pamela Adlon

Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the…

— Richard Corliss

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school.…

— David Fincher

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've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound…

— Patrick Wilson

My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having…

— Sofia Coppola

It's self-destructive to become confident regarding your own acting. Acting, your entire career depends on a lot of things. What kind of…

— Jitendra Kumar

I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script…

— Hannes Holm

In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time…

— Quentin Tarantino

“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

“Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds…

— Abhijit Naskar

Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between…

— Mano Khalil

It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to…

— Rob Minkoff

When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was…

— Andrea Arnold

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

— Kim Ki-duk

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

— Matthew Heineman

Filmmaking is never easy as long as you continue learning from the process.

— Karthik Subbaraj

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

— Derek Magyar

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

— Louis Leterrier

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

— Aparna Sen

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're…

— Madonna Ciccone

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

— Ang Lee