Filmmaking Quotes · Page 7

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

— Terry Gilliam

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

— Barry Jenkins

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

— Guy Ritchie

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

— James Franco

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

— Signe Baumane

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

— Herschell Gordon Lewis

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

— Steve Antin

With every film that I am doing I am learning new things either about myself, or about filmmaking.

— Sanya Malhotra

I feel filmmaking is not an easy task. People make films but sometimes they are not able to release it.

— Rakhi Sawant

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the…

— Sally Potter

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and…

— Paul Greengrass

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'

— James Wan

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name…

— Alden Ehrenreich

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's…

— David O. Russell

“Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their…

— Michael Apted

I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more…

— George Lucas

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the…

— Rani Mukerji

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process -…

— Ethan Hawke

I feel like I'm a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking. I went and visited Roger on the set of…

— Alex Stapleton

I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and…

— Oren Peli

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now…

— John Baldacci

I've always tried to do camera moves that I felt were immersive. So I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I just enjoy the filmmaking side of things. I feel like when you're an actor, sometimes you're in other people's hands and…

— Carrie Preston

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I…

— Sophia Takal

“Yet in recent years I have witnessed a new phenomenon among filmgoers, especially those considered intelligent and perceptive. I have a name…

— Anonymous

I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character.…

— Cary Fukunaga

'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it -…

— Gordon Quinn

We just assume all the great actors are in New York first and then L.A. second, and it's so not true. There's…

— Sandra Bullock

I think a lot of people go into filmmaking thinking, "How can I make a career?" And so when they make their…

— Andrew Bujalski

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

— Greg Kinnear

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

— Dee Rees

“Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.

— Jafar Panahi

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.

— Renee O'Connor

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

— Peter Jackson