Best Filmmaking Sayings

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ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON… — Andrei Tarkovsky
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT. — Andrei Tarkovsky
MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL… — Andrei Tarkovsky
IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY… — Andrei Tarkovsky
MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT… — Andrei Tarkovsky
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION,… — Andrei Tarkovsky
THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING,… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP… — Andrei Tarkovsky
IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film. — Ted Kotcheff
Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note. — Dianne Wiest
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable… — Lake Bell
Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending. — M. Night Shyamalan
I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I… — J. Lee Thompson
I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in… — Alain Resnais
The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully… — Ethan Hawke
The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance. — Mike Nichols
Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand? — John Cassavetes
There are no rules in filmmaking — Frank Capra
What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain… — Joss Whedon
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about. — Yahoo Serious
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking — Darren Aronofsky
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film,… — Diane Lane
John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking. — Molly Ringwald
The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which… — Charlton Heston

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