Best 122 quotes in «filmmaking quotes» category

Be what we make, and not who we are.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

Filmmakers now have the freedom to create the type of movie they want. More screenwriters, directors, and producers now have the chance to see their words on screen now that VOD and streaming outlets are available. Overall, it's a good thing for filmmaking and documentarians.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to be a part of the movie business and make movies. That's why I went to AFI grad school for filmmaking.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking. I think it is an urgent cause. I think I need to make something. I'm a part of it. Everybody's a part of it, and this country needs to know what's happening there in a very truthful way.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

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 move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a hundred other places we can try. I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully. But I think there are far fewer options now to releasing a movie theatrically or to getting the financing.

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.

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

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

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

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie ["Sicario"], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.

To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary.