Best Filmmaking Thoughts
252 Filmmaking quotes by 193 unique authors
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law…
— Brit Marling
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When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a…
— Arjun Rampal
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I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.
— David Ayer
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Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.
— Madonna Ciccone
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Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
— Matthew Fox
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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
— James Franco
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I view filmmaking as a director's medium.
— James Franco
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I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
— Minnie Driver
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Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
— Robert Duvall
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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
— Roger Ebert
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Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
— Vera Farmiga
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Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in…
— Will Ferrell
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To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
— Michel Hazanavicius
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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
— Werner Herzog
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
— Peter Jackson
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Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
— Greg Kinnear
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I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright…
— Tony Kushner
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I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed…
— Shia LaBeouf
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Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and…
— John Lasseter
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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
— Ang Lee
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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
— Ang Lee
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I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend…
— George Lucas
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In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I…
— George Lucas
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