Filmmaking Quotes - Page 17

• In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

  Irvin Kershner

  Years, Effort, Lasts

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• It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Creativity, People, Hardship

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• I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

  Art Alexakis

  School, Acting, Want

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• I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Important, Hollywood

  "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

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• I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance. I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie Johnson, Ward Kimball, all these great animators, and just ask them all these questions about how they did certain things, what their trials and errors were, the ups and downs.

  Andreas Deja

  Errors, Trials, Interviews

  "Exclusive: Andreas Deja Talks the Animation of 101 Dalmatians". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 04, 2008.

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• You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

  David Ayer

  Enjoy, Audience, Hopefully

  Source: collider.com

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• The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Becoming One, Actors

  "James Cameron, Peter Jackson on Film Technology". www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2009.

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  Fede Alvarez

  Fans, Crafts, Film

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with ‘Evil Dead’". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

  Jamie Bell

  Movie, Real, Thinking

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• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  Abel Ferrara

  Movie, Hands, Actors

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  Yash Chopra

  Brother, College, Directors

  "The Scene" Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

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• When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

  Stephen Chow

  Movie, Moving, Color

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

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• Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

  Wim Wenders

  Photography, Art, Actors

  "Wim Wenders Looks Back at His Road Films With 'Portraits Along the Road' Retrospective". Interview with Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, collider.com. August 28, 2015.

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• Filmmaking is a real craft.

  Sean Durkin

  Real, Crafts

  "“Martha Marcy May Marlene” and Mister Sean Durkin". Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Blue, Effort

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• Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds.

  George Hickenlooper

  Struggle, Two, Games

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.

  Dileep Rao

  Movie, Cutting, Thinking

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• If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

  Nikki Reed

  Movie, Moving, Opportunity

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• I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

  David O. Russell

  Careers, Fighter, Instinct

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• We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Fashion, Cutting, Technology

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• Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If you stick to your vision and you're true to yourself, it kind of works. I mean, it's tough. It's a big Fitzcarraldo journey, but then you'll have your good karma at the end of the day. You'll have your good soul. You know, if you start to sell little bits of it, you, you become nothing and nobody, and you don't have any vision remaining.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Karma, Mean, Journey

  "Lynne Ramsay Talks WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, the Patti Smith Biopic, Adapting FRANKENSTEIN & Her Sci-Fi Take On DAS BOOT Meets MOBY DICK In Outer Space". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. January 15, 2012.

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• I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

  Claire Denis

  Track, Firsts, Directors

  Interview with Adam Nayman, reverseshot.org. June 26, 2009.

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• Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

  Spike Lee

  Editing, Acting, Way

  "Interview: Investigating ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + Lead Actors Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams". Interview with Zeba Blay, www.indiewire.com. June 26, 2014.

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• I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

  Sally Potter

  Teacher, Directors, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

  Sofia Coppola

  Thinking, Trying, Directors

  Interview with Richard Prince, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2013.

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