Filmmaking Quotes - Page 23

• Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Character, Technique, Different

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...

  Simon Pegg

  Stars, War, School

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Say Anything, Stories, Stills

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting.

  Kerry Washington

  Independent, Differences, Interesting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music?

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, What If, Lucky

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Thinking, Comedy, Spontaneous

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Editing, Creative Collaboration, Design

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.

  Nina Jacobson

  People, Focus, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.

  Jerusha Hess

  Thinking, Trying, Being A Woman

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Filmmaking and television series are team sports. Look for the best team for you. Plan, budget your time, money and spirit. You need all three to get serious work done. Never say no because something scares you. Never say yes because you're flattered. Stay open, but stay proud. It never gets easy. Get over that part. Get on with it.

  Karen Walton

  Sports, Team, Scare

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Real, Ruins, Documentaries

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

  Justin Chadwick

  Important, Stories, Term

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• Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

  Pamela Yates

  Jobs, Victory, Calling

  "Pamela Yates on Her New Documentary Used in Guatemalan Dictator Genocide Trial". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

  Alexander Payne

  Movie, Dark, Actors

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• There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.

  Mike Leigh

  Country, Independent, Odds

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

  Mike Leigh

  Independent, Independent Filmmaking, Forgotten

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

  Tom Ford

  Reading, Listening, Film

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• I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Fields, Documentaries, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I really enjoy behind the camera stuff and I'm a frustrated photographer myself and just love the camera. I love that side of it and that part of the filmmaking world and I enjoy developing things. It's an area that I'll continue to be more active in as time goes by.

  Eric Bana

  Frustrated, Cameras, World

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I went for a more classical approach to filmmaking with lots of dolly, track and cranes, and slightly slower, more choreographed fight moves, so you get more fight moves in one take.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Moving, Fighting, Track

  Source: collider.com

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• 3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Years, Way, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, Skills, Directors

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Black And White, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Independent, Dollars, Cost

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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