Cinema Quote by David Mamet Download Open image “The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.” — David Mamet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Directors Lists Scripts Shots
Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
Not every director does this, but I did: I made a list of every shot you're going to set up for every scene in… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
I didn't know you had to do so much to be a director. I thought, 'I can do it. I can write a treatment.'… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process. — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough… — Robert Forster Copy Share Image
The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script,… — Robert Wise Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the… — David Mamet Copy Share
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.” — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
