When you are scripting, the scene, the dialogues, everything comes before you, taking final shape. That is truly the most creative aspect… — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development,… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink… — Christopher Doyle Copy Share Image
Filmmakers now have the freedom to create the type of movie they want. More screenwriters, directors, and producers now have the chance… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research.… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go… — Jerusha Hess Copy Share Image
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
We shot some stuff for 'Sex and the City' on the street outside of Tiffany's, which was always crazy. We were doing… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I love the way the long scenes feel - one of the characteristics of '70s filmmaking is that you don't cut around… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work… — Sven Nykvist Copy Share Image
It's all about loyalty and collaboration, gathering your gang around you, finding your soulmate in filmmaking because it is a collaborative process.… — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping.… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking is very well-suited to 3-D anyway, so it's not like I'm having to… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I… — Barbara Kopple Copy Share Image
I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of… — Kapil Sharma Copy Share Image
'Your Name' is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium. When… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
There is a whole separate filmmaking team that's doing it, but that's part of what's great about the Brain Trust and about… — Klay Hall Copy Share Image
When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image