Filmmaker Quotes - Page 21

• As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

  Ali Liebegott

  Grateful, Poet, Expenses

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.

  Renata Adler

  Movie, Art, People

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• I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Television, World, Today

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• One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Important, Tools, Notes

  "Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration". Interview with Ariston Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2011.

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• I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the past few years that there is a certain ceiling that a woman filmmaker can reach. I don't believe that it's sexism per se, but there are certain expectations in the industry about what films should be, how they should be made, what stories they should tell, and it's a habit, it's a tradition.

  Signe Baumane

  Believe, Thinking, Expectations

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.

  Signe Baumane

  Sex, War, Fall

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it's those eyes that mean so much to me.

  Peter Jackson

  Mean, Eye, Important

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work.

  Hilary Swank

  Scare, Looks, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

  George A. Romero

  Ideas, Mixing, Different

  Source: techland.time.com

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• A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Topics, Portraits, Assuming

  Le Parisien, May, 2003.

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• As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Book, Essence, Stories

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• War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

  Angelina Jolie

  War, Human Nature, Humans

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• Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

  Ben Whishaw

  Stories, Human Nature, Flawed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

  Andrew Stanton

  Mean, Thinking, Pixar

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• Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

  Jeremy Davies

  School, Acting, Film

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

  Jeremy Davies

  Taken, Desire, Educate

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

  John Woo

  Hard Work, Masters, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

  Toby Jones

  Darkness, Giants, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

  Spike Jonze

  Character, Trying, Film

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• Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Girl, Technology, Print Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.

  Marques Houston

  Inspiration, Eight, Careers

  "Marques Houston Talks 'Battleground America' w/ S&A (Story, Character, Working w/ Kids)". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. September 18, 2012.

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• A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.

  Rani Mukerji

  Mean, Mind, Agendas

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• Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

  Trieste Kelly Dunn

  Thank God, Millions

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• People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

  Bill Plympton

  People, Want, Apps

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• In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

  Ridley Scott

  Views, Way, Sound

  "The Only Way to See a Film" by Ridley Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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