Filmmaking Quote by Gus Van Sant

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make…

— Gus Van Sant

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

— Bill Forsyth

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

— Martin Donovan

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein

I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I…

— Asa Butterfield

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

— Peter Jackson

When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films, but don't…

— Jim Jarmusch

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

— Todd Phillips

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…

— George Lucas

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling…

— Matthew Vaughn

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

— Paul Verhoeven