Filmmaking Quotes - Page 3

• Filmmaking is, a sort of uncontrolled process. I think it's very important to be open to the unexpected and at the same time, of course, maintain your vision, be open to the all the things you didn't think of yourself that can make the film better.

  Dagur Kari

  Thinking, Vision, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

  Dianne Wiest

  Movie, Musical, Actors

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• The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

  Rick Moranis

  Movie, Opportunity, Actors

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• But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

  Mike Figgis

  Movie, Strong, Desire

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• It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

  John Dykstra

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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• It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

  Richard Donner

  Movie, Hurt, Couple

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• A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

  Renny Harlin

  Movie, Government, Foundation

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

  Herschell Gordon Lewis

  Art, Pity, Form

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.

  Renee O'Connor

  Energy

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• It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

  Ramona S. Diaz

  Sports, Team, Cliche

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

  Morten Tyldum

  Real, Years, Six Months

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

  Roman Polanski

  Movie, Inspiring, Humorous

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

  Jeri Ryan

  Movie, New Day, Actors

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

  Brendan Fraser

  United States, Tests, Process

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• The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Movie, America, World

  "Interview with a Vampire: Inside CBS' Bloody-fun Moonlight". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. September 28, 2007.

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• The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

  Charlton Heston

  Sound, Eras, Film

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

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• But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

  Minnie Driver

  Movie, Actors, England

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• I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

  Richard Donner

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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• Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Actors, Achieve

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

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• I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

  Dagur Kari

  Thinking, Filmmaker, Feels

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

  Tom Stoppard

  Nice, World, Nice Things

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Directors, Filmmaker

  Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).

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• Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

  Daryl Hannah

  Movie, Actors, Mediums

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

  Robert Morgan

  Movie, Writing, School

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• Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Movie, Men, Views

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

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