Filmmaking Quotes - Page 20

• Sometimes it wasn't even when we were knocking on doors, it would be, the phone would ring and somebody would say, "God told me to do this," and it would be exactly the perfect timing to help us with the next step of the filmmaking.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Phones, Doors, Perfect

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It's very different from European filmmaking, because here it's like a real industry. It's very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it's very expensive to make movies.

  Baran Odar

  Lying, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

  Kiki Smith

  Artist, Media, Studios

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.

  Tilda Swinton

  Self, Want, Cinema

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was this heartache that pushed me to explore other artistic avenues, like writing and filmmaking, and I ultimately feel most at home in a multidisciplinary environment.

  Vivek Shraya

  Home, Writing, Heartache

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Magic, Suspense, Exotic

  Source: www.dotwnews.com

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• It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

  Sergio Leone

  Expression, Talking, Cinema

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'm older and wiser. So and now having segued into filmmaking I'm looking at [Ridley Scott ] and what he does in an entirely different way and I have respect for what he does and how he composes shots. So that was what was completely fascinating.

  Denzel Washington

  Doe, Different, Way

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.

  Werner Herzog

  Growing Up, Age, Path

  Source: collider.com

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• Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.

  Werner Herzog

  Digital Revolution, Needs, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Emotion, Excited, My Favorite

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• Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Artist, Design, Innovation

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into writing and filmmaking and everything, I said, "When I tried to think of what to say, the only subject I thought was appropriate for people doing what you're going to do is rejection." That's what it's all about.

  Kevin Sessums

  Writing, Thinking, Mba Programs

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start in the corner and you don't know where it leads you. I have no message, I have nothing I want to tell, I just start and I see where it leads, and it's a big surprise and relief if it's good. That's the ideal state for filmmaking.

  Jørgen Leth

  Strong, Relief, Links

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

  Errol Morris

  Umbrella, Diverse

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.

  Adria Petty

  Artist, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

  John Boorman

  Fantasy, Socialist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.

  Eran Creevy

  Musical, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.

  Mark Sheppard

  Trying, Done, Labor

  Source: collider.com

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• Filmmakers now have the freedom to create the type of movie they want. More screenwriters, directors, and producers now have the chance to see their words on screen now that VOD and streaming outlets are available. Overall, it's a good thing for filmmaking and documentarians.

  Robert Greenwald

  Chance, Streaming, Good Things

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think it's very valuable as an actor to throw yourself back into having that direct connection with an audience on-stage and work that muscle. It is a very different type of work and equally fascinating. I mean, I've very much in love with filmmaking because I really love the way you can tell stories with a camera and how music and everything contributes to the story in a very direct way. But I also think it's very valuable to come back to theatre, so if the right script came along I would love to come back to London and do some more.

  Thekla Reuten

  Mean, Thinking, Theatre

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

  Christopher Nolan

  Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking. I think it is an urgent cause. I think I need to make something. I'm a part of it. Everybody's a part of it, and this country needs to know what's happening there in a very truthful way.

  Lourdes Portillo

  Country, Thinking, Truthful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Opportunity, Names, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.

  Kim Gordon

  Economy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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