Filmmaking Quotes · Page 16

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team…

— R. Madhavan

I'm not always hopeful about the future in general, but I'm definitely hopeful about the future of filmmaking and art.

— Camila Morrone

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come…

— Jay Duplass

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every…

— Jeri Ryan

Filmmaking involves a lot of money and hard work, which should not be wasted, though nobody knows which film will be a…

— Hema Malini

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my…

— Darren Aronofsky

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

— Fede Alvarez

The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers.

— Sidharth Malhotra

I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't…

— Kim Longinotto

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For…

— Takashi Miike

My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early…

— Elisa Kreisinger

I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget…

— Mark Duplass

I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you…

— Oren Peli

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked.…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and…

— Anna Kendrick

There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes…

— Andrew Neel

Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

— Ruben Ostlund

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

— Deepika Padukone

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an…

— Dee Rees

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

— Alexander Payne

The reality of filmmaking is that it's really intense. You need to treat yourself carefully. I just want to enjoy it all.

— Naomi Ackie

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

— David Shapiro

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux…

— Charlton Heston

If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking…

— Gary Rydstrom

I put a lot of time and energy into studying the art of filmmaking, but I hadn't put a lot of energy…

— Max Joseph

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time,…

— Andrzej Wajda

“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public…

— D.W. Griffith

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

— Julia Leigh

At times, I thought of leaving filmmaking because of the pressure and frustration 'Adhugo' had put on me.

— Ravi Babu

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you…

— Donald Glover

Sometimes I wonder how my filmmaking would have been affected by film school but in the end I'm glad I got to…

— Riley Stearns

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

— Stanley Tucci

I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the…

— Travis Beacham

While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over…

— Jenni Olson

I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of…

— Jørgen Leth

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

— Takashi Miike

“Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

— Artie Kane

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a…

— Dianne Wiest

Although technology has been playing a key role in filmmaking, I feel there are plenty of opportunities in other branches of filmdom.

— Karthik Subbaraj