Filmmaking Quotes - Page 2

• Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

  Shane Carruth

  Choices, Important, Thousand

  "Five Questions For Upstream Color Director Shane Carruth". Interview with Ethan Alter, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com. April 1, 2013.

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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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• You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Movie, Editing, Choices

  "Toronto International Film Festival 2002: An interview with Frederick Wiseman, director of The Last Letter". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. October 2, 2002.

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• Comparing filmmaking to a plastic model, shooting is the process where you mold and color each piece, and editing is where you build a finished whole from the pieces you molded and colored. Obviously, the latter is the most enjoyable part in the making of plastic models, so editing is the process in filmmaking I enjoy the most. But at the same time, editing can be a painstaking task, too.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Editing, Color, Mold

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Believe, Thinking, Games

  "What It Takes to Make a Great Movie" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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• Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Directors, Arabia, Looks

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• I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

  Roger Deakins

  Art, Communication, Thinking

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• Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

  John Lasseter

  Movie, Mother, Baby

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• We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

  Roger Ebert

  Movie, Class, Actors

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

  Kerry Washington

  Movie, Writing, Rights

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 29, 2001.

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• When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.

  David Cronenberg

  Sight, Talking, People

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

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• I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Movie, Writing, Mean

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Movie, Hate, Voice

  "Eddie Redmayne On ‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With" by Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "The Force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. Jun 29, 2010.

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• In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Photograph, Manipulate

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• Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

  Frederic Tcheng

  Distance, Struggle, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying. It's like teaching a child to walk. It may start by walking, but eventually it will fall. And I have kids, but I know that that will enable them to stand up again and understand why they fell, and how they can avoid that. They will walk better and faster, and stronger. Filmmaking is the same.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Art, Children, Fall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Movie, People, Together

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

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• I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Movie, Agreement, Way

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• For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

  Neil Jordan

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• I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

  Bryan Singer

  Able, Privilege, Speak

  "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer". www.ign.com. December 9, 2002.

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• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Movie, Vision, Trying

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• I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Directors, Sides, Comedy

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• I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

  Guy Ritchie

  Movie, Teamwork, Smart

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• You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

  Guy Ritchie

  Movie, Different, Actors

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