Filmmaking Quotes · Page 13

Filmmaking is something that I'm really passionate about. Film, in general, is something that I'm passionate about.

— Paul Wesley

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks…

— Nicholas Ozeki

Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable…

— Bennett Miller

Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh…

— Farah Khan

“The filmmaking process taught me that I need to be authentic—in my scripts and in real life.”

— John Grooters

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's…

— William Mapother

I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so…

— Dagur Kari

The worst thing is that filmmaking is an expensive medium and money corrupts cinema right at the beginning.

— Victor Banerjee

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the…

— Nicole Kidman

I'm older and wiser. So and now having segued into filmmaking I'm looking at [Ridley Scott ] and what he does in…

— Denzel Washington

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as…

— Arjun Rampal

I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and…

— Angela Bettis

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

I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie…

— Baran Odar

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music…

— Akira Kurosawa

The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this…

— Gavid Hood

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only…

— Peter Guber

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

— Roger Deakins

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant…

— Amy J. Berg

Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa,…

— Shekhar Kapur

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people…

— Irvine Welsh

I find reading books about music is sometimes tricky, because you can't hear it. But when you read a book about filmmaking,…

— Bear McCreary

'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very…

— Taylor Sheridan

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

— Dagur Kari

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

— Guy Ritchie

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with…

— Nicholas Ozeki

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

— Jamie Bell

My faith in my filmmaking changed on the heels of 'Titan.' It allowed me to pursue things that I previously would have…

— Chris Meledandri

I'm quite often interested in writing and sculpture, installation, and photography, obviously, just as much as filmmaking.

— RaMell Ross

It's important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.

— Ginevra Elkann

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is…

— Catherine Hardwicke

There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.

— Justin Lin

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the…

— Richard Donner

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

— Baz Luhrmann

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

— Ted Kotcheff

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's…

— Tye Sheridan

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

— Julia Leigh

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the…

— Michael Biehn

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone…

— Zoe Cassavetes