Filmmaking Quotes - Page 24

• I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn't cross the ocean. I think it's ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do. I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don't have to be strong.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Ocean, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Fun, Thinking, Reason

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

  Wim Wenders

  Art, Expression, Different

  "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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• I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Creative, Lucky

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• I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

  Jack Nicholson

  Writing, Different, Vantage Point

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• Nobody really truly supporting independent filmmakers anymore. It's just dire. There's a lot of bad filmmaking, and there's a lot of people worshipping some terrible filmmakers. It's a waste of all of our time, if you don't feel anything. We are an age of YouTube kids. We don't care so much anymore. It's all about marketing.

  Daniel Gillies

  Kids, Independent, People

  Source: collider.com

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• At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Art, Creative, The End Of The Day

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

  Michael Keaton

  Sports, Team, Ultimate

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• I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Father, Eight, Years

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

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• As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

  William Goldman

  Movie, Stars, Actors

  William Goldman (2012). “Adventures in the Screen Trade”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

  Nicole Kidman

  Two, Cinema, Stories

  "Park Chan Wook & Nicole Kidman Interview, Stoker". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 29th, 2018.

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• The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

  Hugh Grant

  Movie, Weather, Actors

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• I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

  Gus Van Sant

  Different, Really Weird, Knows

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

  Robert Greene

  Black And White, Opposites, Documentaries

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• I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Paper, Shy

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• A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

  Mark Webber

  Bullshit

  Source: collider.com

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• The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

  William Friedkin

  Hype, Film, Promotion

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.

  Takashi Miike

  Way, Enjoy, Therapy

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Reality, Missing, Technique

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

  Werner Herzog

  Creativity, Thinking, Intuition

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 25, 2009.

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• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Pain, Real, Games

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• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Thinking, Keys

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, film.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

  Jason Reitman

  Movie, Thinking, People

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• For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Theatre, Together, Cinema

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• When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, Moving, Sunday

  Source: aalbc.com

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