Best Film Making Quotes

48 Film Making quotes by 42 unique authors

Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The… — Manny Farber
What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a… — Stephen Daldry
I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration. — Duncan Jones
I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there… — Quentin Tarantino
It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets… — Ryan Gosling
I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a… — Lloyd Kaufman
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. — Ang Lee
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service. — Alexander Payne
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story. — Robert Redford
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot. — Werner Herzog
I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of… — Charles Sturridge
If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. — David Lynch
I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his… — John Carney
I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making… — John Carney
Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what… — Rohit Shetty
Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making. — John Rhys-Davies
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and… — Ben Edwards
Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the… — Ben Edwards
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. — Rebecca Miller
Film making to me is a lot like parts of my life. I wish to edit out certain scenes but dammit it wouldn't make a… — Jennifer Amorelli
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. — Guy Pearce
Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an… — Ryan Kwanten

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