Best Filmmaking Lines

252 Filmmaking quotes by 193 unique authors

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind… — Takeshi Kitano
Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If you stick to… — Lynne Ramsay
Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the… — Martin Scorsese
A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it… — Ingmar Bergman
When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer. — Robert Bresson
No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Be what we make, and not who we are. — Catherine Breillat
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view. — Jafar Panahi
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. And… — Peter Guber
You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of… — Danny Huston
I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films. — Art Alexakis
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world. — Jehane Noujaim
In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film… — Irvin Kershner
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. — Seth Gordon
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman. — Richard Donner
When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me… — Lauren Greenfield
Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times.… — Victor Salva
I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the… — Matthew Vaughn
When we talk about violence, we`re talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don`t lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking… — David Cronenberg
People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do. — Robert Greenwald
I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or… — Sam Mendes
I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance.I got to know, not only… — Andreas Deja
You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's… — David Ayer
Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport. — Michael Keaton
What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and… — Simon Beaufoy

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