Filmmaking Quotes - Page 14

• Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

  Vin Diesel

  Art, Magic, Trying

  "Interview: Vin Diesel". Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

  James Woods

  Jobs, Sex, Lines

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• It's not a choice. Either I write or I don't, especially when I'm in a foreign culture. I've lived in London for years, and I must continue my writing and filmmaking. The most important thing for an artist or an author is to continue her work. Languages and settings are the tools but not the first thing.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Writing, Artist, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to come by. It turns out I really love the process. And, it's exciting to be able to take my career by the reigns and make things happen for myself. Hopefully, in doing so, more opportunities will become available to me.

  Katie Aselton

  Character, Opportunity, Careers

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

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• The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

  Miranda July

  Levels, Boring, Moments

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

  John Kahrs

  Thinking, Storytelling, Force

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project.

  Eva Green

  Hard Work, Passion, Thinking

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• Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Couple, Attitude, Directors

  "Sydsvenska Dagbladet", Swedish daily newspaper, May 2002.

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• The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up for work. They are seasoned filmmakers over there. They have an infrastructure for filmmaking, which is very healthy. It's small, but they were tenacious, polite, timely.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Running, White, Healthy

  Source: collider.com

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• My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had.

  Mick Garris

  Teacher, Jobs, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

  Jared Harris

  Challenges, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a believer that people need to understand that filmmaking is not a perfect process for anybody. It is a process in which you find the film and the film finds you. And that is every film.

  Jason Reitman

  People, Perfect, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Some people live, eat and breathe art, and they love acting and filmmaking. I've got other loves. I love animals. I love teaching. I love kids. That's always something in the back of my mind.

  Kay Panabaker

  Art, Teaching, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Always Trying, Different, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with any of the systems, whether it's Red, Sony, or whatever.

  Michael Seresin

  Red, Sony, Machinery

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

  M.I.A.

  Teaching, College, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  Ben Affleck

  Philosophy, Taken, Writing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

  James Franco

  Focus, Quirky, Plot

  "James Franco’s Movie Column: Civil War Meets Mumblecore in ‘Men Go To Battle’". www.indiewire.com. July 7, 2016.

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• My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.

  Elisa Kreisinger

  Home, Cutting, Hands

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• I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .

  Charlize Theron

  Real, Nice, Responsibility

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• I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Long, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a hundred other places we can try. I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully. But I think there are far fewer options now to releasing a movie theatrically or to getting the financing.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Thinking, Trying, Producers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film is like building a house of cards on the deck of a speeding boat, or playing chess on train tracks. Every opportunity feels like that; it's the one artistic field that's unlike most of the others.

  Jeremy Davies

  Opportunity, Track, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

  Sacha Gervasi

  School, Safety, Good Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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