Filmmaking Quotes · Page 14

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

— Brendan Fraser

Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We…

— Claire Denis

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

— Werner Herzog

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

— Christophe Agou

“Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.”

— Darlene Craviotto

I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Many people don't understand that in filmmaking, if you make a fundamental mistake, everything goes wrong - but you don't realise it…

— Ram Gopal Varma

In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don't plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.

— Mohanlal

I think that's the process of filmmaking all the way through: building things and taking it apart and building it, and, you…

— Kelly Reichardt

In my world, when I'm making work, when I go to my core group of people that I've been going to for…

— Kelly Reichardt

You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with…

— Adam Green

From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I take particular care in authenticity and specificity when working in cultures not my own. Every aspect of the filmmaking here was…

— Niki Caro

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to…

— Diane Lane

There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive…

— Debra Granik

I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you…

— Dhanush

“Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the…

— Abhijit Naskar

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to…

— Ingmar Bergman

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

— Vicky Kaushal

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

— Ramona S. Diaz

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

— Sergio Leone

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

— Timur Bekmambetov

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

— Dermot Mulroney

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do…

— Errol Morris

I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers…

— Gary Oldman

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is…

— Alain Resnais

The Eighties were the last decade where the actual filmmaking was still treated with some respect, even if it was horror.

— Ti West

The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.

— Marc Platt

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

— Tom Stoppard

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You…

— Spike Lee

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out…

— Mike Leigh

Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's…

— Alex Garland

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

— Lena Dunham

I found that direction is the most enjoyable part in filmmaking. The easiest and most comfortable is acting and the loneliest and…

— Anoop Menon

At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words.

— Karthik Subbaraj

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

— Jeff Kinney

The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.

— Sreenivasan