Best 122 quotes in «filmmaking quotes» category

This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express the Transcendent, an experience cannot. A form can express the common ground in which all things share. An experience can only express one man's reaction to that common ground.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

Too many film schools, as well as any number of screenwriting gurus and an obscene number of how-to-write tomes, have made a business of catering to fledgling screenwriters and filmmakers by exploiting their belief that the only thing standing between them and an Oscar is the right kind of knowledge. If only one knew enough, one could easily become rich and famous. Unfortunately, almost all are susceptible to that eternal malady – “that last great infirmity of the soul” – which is FAME. And whilst I don’t deny the value of technical knowledge, such knowledge matters very little if the story one is trying to tell doesn’t matter, either because it’s incoherent or simply because it fails to make us care.

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

To be honest, I’ve always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad’s Super 8 camera. In my mind, it’s all one big continuum of filmmaking and I’ve never changed.

Transform into your dream.

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas for an I-Pad. Celluloid isn't just nostalgic, it's an art form and, like it or not, it's superior to digital. It lasts much longer, it provides grain and brighter colors, and it takes more effort so that it produces something wonderful. With the inferior binary codes, pixels and untested shelf-life of digital files, plus the fact that these days anyone with a digital camera, even a two-year-old, can make a video and pollute the world with self-photography and cat pictures, film has a lot more integrity and worth than digital.

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

With a camera, a microphone, and sufficient cash, you, too, can craft your own version of the world and emblazon it with a premium of fear over facts. (Be warned though: Paranoid schizophrenia makes for compelling film, but it's no way of life.)

You’re my mascot, Paper Moon.” I was too tired to object. We both knew I was more than a mascot. I’d worked for my brother since I was eleven, for six long years. “You should stop calling me that,” I said. “I love that name.” “P.M. and her dad were crooks. It gives it away.

Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.

Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

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

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

Be what we make, and not who we are.

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

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

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

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.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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

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