Filmmaker Quotes - Page 6

• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Movie, Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

  Alan Rudolph

  Movie, Inspiring, Lasts

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

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• My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

  Spike Lee

  Cousin, My Cousin

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• I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

  Bryan Singer

  Motivational, Kids, Numbers

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• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Writing, Life Is Short

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.

  Ann Macbeth

  Independent, People, Support

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• I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

  Carter Burwell

  Lobbying, Projects

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• I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

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• The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Stories, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

  Paul Bettany

  Doors, Doubt, Safe

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• I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

  John Cusack

  Cutting, Needs, Action

  Interview with Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. April 14, 2003.

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• I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

  Tim Robbins

  Thinking, Credit, Gifted

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• The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

  Sean Astin

  Phones, Hook, Pining

  "An Interview with Sean Astin". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 18, 2002.

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• For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Country, Countries Of The World, Perfect

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• In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Moving, Desire

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• When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, Style, Documentaries

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• I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

  Jay Roach

  Film, Great Experiences, Really Great

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

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• Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.

  Richard Roeper

  New York, Thinking, Long

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• What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car than not do it, find something else to do as a career and do filmmaking as a hobby. This industry is one of the hardest to break into and be successful. It takes a lot of passion and dedication for it to get anywhere.

  Ryan Connolly

  Movie, Inspiring, Passion

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• I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Inspiring, Sleep

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• A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Paper, Novelists

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody's a filmmaker today.

  John Milius

  Movie, Gambling, Today

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 07, 2003.

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• Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

  John Milius

  Movie, Inspiring, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 07, 2003.

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• As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

  George A. Romero

  Actors, Doe, Genre

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• I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Movie, Inspiring, Differences

  "Screenwriters on Screenwriting". Book by Joel Engel, 1995.

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