Filmmaker Quotes - Page 5

• Casting is 65 percent of directing.

  John Frankenheimer

  Movie, Inspiring, Casting

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• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  Sadie Frost

  Effort, Too Much, Pretentious

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

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• If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Directors, Filmmaking

  Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  Orson Welles

  Business, Hate, Nuts

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• Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

  Werner Herzog

  Filmmaking, Ifs

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• You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, Good Enough, Wells

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• Art depends on luck and talent.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Luck, Talent

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• I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

  Michael Crichton

  Movie, Inspiring, World

  "State of Fear". Book by Michael Crichton, 2004.

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• I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

  David Cronenberg

  Writing, Moral, Plans

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn, 1988).

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• If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

  Tom Hanks

  Movie, Inspiring, Jobs

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• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Years, Two, People

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• Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

  Steven Spielberg

  Funny, Movie, Inspiring

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• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  Ed Wood

  Movie, Inspiring, Details

  "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.

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• There's nothing creative about living within your means.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Inspiring, Mean

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• (When asked what a director does) I help.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Directors, Doe, Helping

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• There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

  Mike Figgis

  Ideas, Film, Failing

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• Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

  Griffin Dunne

  Movie, Inspiring, Narrative

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• A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

  Alan Parker

  Movie, Inspiring, Vision

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• I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie, Inspiring, Believe

  "Movies to keep you awake at night" by Scott Bowles, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 24, 2002.

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• A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Movie, Inspiring, Events

  "Thinking outside the box office" by Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 01, 2005.

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• Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

  Peter Farrelly

  Movie, Inspiring, Stress

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• I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Movie, Inspiring, Trying

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

  Trevor Nunn

  Believe, Imagination, Planning

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• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  Karel Reisz

  Movie, Inspiring, Expression

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