Filmmaking Quotes · Page 7

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me…

— Yash Chopra

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

— Arjun Kapoor

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

— Steven Knight

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate…

— Matthew Specktor

I wanted to make a movie about filmmaking and I didn't want to make a movie that took place in Hollywood.

— Ti West

Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to…

— Dev Anand

Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.

— Travis Knight

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

— Gus Van Sant

I think people like Lena Dunham really opened up the door to what was possible, and they've inspired young women to go…

— Judd Apatow

I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and…

— Oren Peli

I feel like I'm a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking. I went and visited Roger on the set of…

— Alex Stapleton

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process -…

— Ethan Hawke

I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always…

— Jeff Vespa

The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up…

— Pierce Brosnan

The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so…

— Eric Stoltz

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now…

— John Baldacci

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

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like…

— George Hickenlooper

I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like…

— Eric Balfour

All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you…

— Alexander Payne

Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If…

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33…

— James Cameron

“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

— Baz Luhrmann

Women should not only be doing action on-screen but should be a part of every other aspect of filmmaking.

— Esme Creed-Miles

'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'A Simple Favor' were each a master class in filmmaking, and I had so much fun working with…

— Henry Golding

[Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of…

— Steven Knight

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

— Dustin Lance Black

Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

— Justin Chadwick

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not…

— David Cronenberg

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

— Ridley Scott

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in…

— Rick Moranis

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major…

— Anand Mahindra

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because…

— Cary Fukunaga

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.”

— Abhijit Naskar