Filmmaking Quotes

• To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Learning

• I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Wonderful
  • Times
  • Garbage

• Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

  

  Michael Keaton
  • Sport
  • Ultimate
  • Filmmaking

• The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.

  

  Nandita Das
  • Lessons
  • Filmmaking

• My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Technology
  • Stories
  • Movie camera

• 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 in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Happy

• I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project.

  

  Eva Green
  • Experience
  • Passion
  • Talent

• If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Writing
  • Passion
  • Practice

• Invest in learning and discovering new filmmaking techniques is the next keystone to success. Film is changing rapidly right now. The last big change was the introduction of sound. This time around it is movies on th internet and mobile telephones.

  

  Elliot Grove
  • Learning
  • Internet
  • Discovering

• I suppose I've been working for a long time, so I've seen all kinds of filmmaking. I can fit into anything, and it doesn't feel that weird or that fascinating.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Time
  • Long
  • Weird

• I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Dream
  • Loved

• I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

  

  David Shapiro
  • Acknowledge
  • Expose
  • Apparatus

• We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Chaos
  • Able
  • Form

• Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Moments
  • Nostalgic
  • Coasters

• I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Ang Lee
  • History
  • Movie
  • Knowledge

• I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

  

  Charles Ferguson
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Make

• The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Film
  • Promotion
  • Expenses

• Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

  

  Nicholas Ozeki
  • Imagination
  • Paid
  • Filmmaking

• I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Shy

• One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • Business
  • Friends

• 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
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Sophistication

• My god is narrative filmmaking.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • God
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.

  

  Miguel Sapochnik
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Designing

• If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.

  

  Gary Rydstrom
  • Sound
  • Filmmaking
  • Evangelizing

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