Best Filmmaking Quotes
252 Filmmaking quotes by 193 unique authors
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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a…
— Stanley Kubrick
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The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll…
— John Landis
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I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which…
— Darren Aronofsky
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There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
— Frank Capra
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Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
— Griffin Dunne
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I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.
— Unknown Author
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I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.
— Roger Deakins
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of…
— Olivia Thirlby
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Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you…
— Kenneth Lonergan
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This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some…
— Jeri Ryan
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It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an…
— John Dykstra
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My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford,…
— Lloyd Kaufman
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I really got into filmmaking through photography.
— Todd Phillips
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It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just…
— Richard Donner
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A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back…
— Renny Harlin
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But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
— Mike Figgis
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There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage…
— Andrzej Wajda
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In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
— Andrzej Wajda
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It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other…
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
— Neil Jordan
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I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set…
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting
— Abel Ferrara
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
— Lars von Trier
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I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big…
— Bryan Singer
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You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are…
— Frederick Wiseman
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