Best 122 quotes in «filmmaking quotes» category

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.

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

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.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

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

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

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

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

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'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 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 really got into filmmaking through photography.

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

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.

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

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

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

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

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

My god is narrative filmmaking.

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

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.

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

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

All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.

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.

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.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

All film technique, I am convinced (and like many of my theories I am probably alone in adhering to it), originates in dreaming. We could dream slow motion before the moving camera was invented. In our dreams we could cut between parallel actions, we assembled montage shots long before some self-important Russian claimed to show us how. This is where film derives its particular power. It re-creates on screen what has been going on in our unconscious.

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

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.

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