Filmmaking Quotes

• There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

  Frank Capra

  Movie, Inspiring, Sin

  Recalled on his death in People, 16 Sep 1991.

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• There are no rules in filmmaking

  Frank Capra

  Recalled on his death in People, 16 Sep 1991.

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• The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Jobs, Play

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

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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

  Filmmaker, Ifs

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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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• Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

  John Cassavetes

  Want, Film, Exploring

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• Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

  Robert Duvall

  Movie, Hollywood, Actors

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• Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

  Robert Altman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Chance

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

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• The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.

  Nandita Das

  Lessons

  Source: dfuse.in

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

  Steve Antin

  Cliche, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

  Roger Ebert

  Movie, Gambling, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

  Claire Denis

  Paris, People, Walking

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• Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

  Aamir Khan

  Creative, Vision, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• I really got into filmmaking through photography.

  Todd Phillips

  Photography

  Interveiw with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

  Nicolas Cage

  Zeppelins, Way, Embrace

  "Nicolas Cage On ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance,’ Almost Starring In ‘Dumb and Dumber’ And Why He Is Led Zeppelin" by Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  My Autobiography ch. 10 (1964)

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• Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

  Jason Reitman

  Movie, Character, Actors

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.

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• Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

  Yahoo Serious

  Movie, Voice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

  James McAvoy

  Miracle, Collaboration

  "James McAvoy Talks about 'Atonement'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 16, 2007.

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• I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Ideas, Directors

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• There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

  John Baldacci

  Art, Thinking, Engineering

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• The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Movie, Musical, Actors

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Money, Giving

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• I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Movie, Money, Mind

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