Catherine Breillat Quotes

Be what we make, and not who we are.

Catherine Breillat

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• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Picture
  • Details
  • Filmmaking

• Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Innovation
  • Filmmaking

• Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Money
  • Art
  • Filmmaking

• 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 that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • American
  • Effort
  • Filmmaking

• Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Together
  • Filmmaking

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • Most
  • Filmmaking
  • Narrative

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
  • Home
  • Style

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Ifs

• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
  • Actors
  • Directors

• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Walking
  • Directors

• Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • American
  • Law
  • Directors

• If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Music
  • Nature

• The directors are supposed to be the stewards of their shareholders' investments, but too often act at the behest of the advisory and management companies that run the funds' day-to-day operations.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Management
  • Directors
  • Investments

• Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Rest
  • Taken
  • Film

• I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Cutting
  • Directors
  • Minutes

• I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

  

  William Shatner
  • Directors
  • Comedian
  • Performers

• But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • Important
  • Actors
  • Differences

• A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation. Everyone is grateful for it. It improves every human relationship, it brings new courage to people facing difficulties, and it brings out the best in everyone. So, give appreciation generously whenever you can. You will never regret it.

  

  Carl Holmes
  • Habit
  • Appreciate
  • Everyone

• Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Penicillin
  • Quack

• Be what we make, and not who we are.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • Directors
  • Filmmaking