Filmmaker Quotes - Page 4

• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.

  George Lucas

  Power, Cells, Giving

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• The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

  Dennis Hopper

  Movie, Men, Mad

  "Fictional character: Photojournalist". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

  Sofia Coppola

  Life, Running, Missing Someone

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• Music takes us where words cannot.

  Henry Winkler

  Music, Art, Comedian

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• Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

  David Fincher

  Movie, Education, School

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

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• Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  John Ford

  Photography, Art, Eye

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

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• One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

  Jane Campion

  Movie, Real, Women

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

  Maya Deren

  Art, Vision, Assuming

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• Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head

  Maya Deren

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, African American, Cameras

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• We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Blessed, Blessing, Blood

  "Fictional character: Major Motoko Kusanagi". "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Living
  consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
  responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
  moment.

  Sidney Poitier

  Honesty, African American, Live In The Moment

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• My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Teacher, Perfect One, Perfection

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

  David Lynch

  Movie, Inspiring, Heart

  "Fictional character: Lula Fortune". "Wild at Heart", 1990.

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• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie, Inspiring, Actors

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

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

  Edward Zwick

  Challenges, Stories, Fuel

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

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• A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

  Spike Lee

  Credit, Stuff, Movie Director

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• I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Stuff

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

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• Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

  David Cronenberg

  Philosophy, Vision, Kind

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• Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

  Banksy

  Movie, Inspiring, World

  "Banksy Breaks His Silence on ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’; Hints at Next Film" by Jordan Raup, thefilmstage.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

  Martin Scorsese

  Movie, Gambling, Film Directing

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 08, 2013

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• Self-plagiarism is style.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Inspiring, Self

  Alfred Hitchcock (2014). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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