Filmmaking Quotes
79 quotes
"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."
"Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something."
"Transform into your dream."
"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
"Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love."
"The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels."
"Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness."
"The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors."
"Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant."
"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
"Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
"Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking."
"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."
"Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs."
"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."
"Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together."
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"Success involves failing first. Ask any successful person. Ask any experienced person, really. It's all part of the creative process, so sit back and allow the artist within you to sprout, blossom and flourish. You must accept that your first, second, and third attempt at something might suck. It's a necessary step in improving your skill. Failure is your teacher, not your judge."
"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."
"If you don't lose first you are not entitled to win."
"That which is cool is driven by the soul."
"Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources."
"When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos"
"I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks"
"Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important."
"When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit."
"Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life."
"Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart."
"Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen."
"As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!"
"It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows."
"People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie."
"Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience."
"That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."
"Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life."
"i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks."
"Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job."
"If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all."
"To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being."
"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."
"Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film."
"Later film shoots’ casting calls would advertise that they’re “fun shoots” and a “good way to get exposure”—but working in entertainment is not entertaining, even though it is not what’s traditionally thought of as “work.” You know what’s fun, indie filmmakers? Being paid for your time."
"The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist."
"I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl."
"The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world & show business is a man's meal with women generously sprinkled through it like over-qualified spice."
"I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself."
"The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence."
"... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves."
"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
"You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it."
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