Filmmaking Quotes · Page 19

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual…

— Gabriel Campisi

It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate…

— Spike Lee

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches…

— Wim Wenders

Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

— Hector Babenco

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest…

— Fede Alvarez

I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school.

— Lee Isaac Chung

My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a…

— Mick Garris

Something that bothers me is when legacy overwhelms presence, right? People that are, myself included, too concerned with some idea of yourself…

— Fred Hechinger

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its…

— Dayo Okeniyi

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

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

— Nicole Kidman

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

— Zal Batmanglij

I have an inherent interest in filmmaking and equipment. Some of my best friends are technicians.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

If you're a fan of auteur filmmaking, I'd say get yourself invested in some really good TV shows.

— Joe Russo

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was…

— Sacha Gervasi

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

— Christopher Nolan

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from…

— Liz Garbus

I think sound is a huge part of my filmmaking process and it's a part of the narrative for me.

— Ti West

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

— Jack Nicholson

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

— Minnie Driver

For me, it doesn't matter what kind of role I am doing. I just enjoy the process of acting and filmmaking.

— Akshaye Khanna

'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had…

— Oren Peli

Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: The Seven Samurai, Lawrence…

— Steven Spielberg

Sometimes when the process of filmmaking gets too self-serious, you are full of fear and operate from a place of fear or…

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

— Eddie Redmayne

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

— Regina King

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about…

— Jon Bernthal

It's interesting, but I literally will not compromise for anybody. That's for wrestling, filmmaking, anything I do outside of the ring.

— Darby Allin

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at…

— Gordon Parks

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

— Harmony Korine

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the…

— Claire Denis

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking…

— Martin Scorsese

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

— Kim Ji-woon

“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

— Barbara Kopple