Cinema Quote by Alexander Payne Download Open image “What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?” — Alexander Payne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Dark Filmmaking
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about.… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense. — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. Or, theater is for actors as cinema is for directors.… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together. — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high. — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Today, you'll have a following for a film before it even hits theaters. We can reach out and touch our audience in ways that… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by. — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
