Filmmaking Quotes - Page 4

• Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

  Drew Goddard

  Way, Incredibles, Force

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• I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Movie, Block, Writing

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• Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

  Will Ferrell

  Night, Thinking, Feet

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• However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Actors, Polish

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• There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

  Josh Lucas

  Movie, People, Actors

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• Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

  Griffin Dunne

  Movie, Inspiring, Narrative

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• When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

  Rick Moranis

  Movie, Thinking, Say Anything

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• A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Money, Actors

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

  Alain Resnais

  Movie, Special, Film

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

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• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Would Be, Actors

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• In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Europe, Actors

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• The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

  David Cronenberg

  Communication, Mean, Stuff

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

  Arjun Kapoor

  Emotional, Ties, Balance

  Source: www.indiawest.com

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• Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

  David Fincher

  Psychology, Cameras, Actors

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• Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Mean, Ideas

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 152), 1986.

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• Eventually, this is how I would like to be remembered at the end of my career: He was never the best in anything he did - comedy, acting, filmmaking, writing, etc. But nobody was better at doing different things at the same time than he was.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Writing, Careers, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Pain is temporary, film is forever.

  Michael J. Fox

  Funny, Movie, Pain

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• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  Ed Wood

  Movie, Inspiring, Details

  "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Movie, Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

  Martin Scorsese

  Ideas, Flying, Visionaries

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film Directing, People, Directors

  "One! the Book about Everything and Nothing!: Stories from One Male to All of You". Book by Chimie (p. 85), November 23, 2011.

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• My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Flower, Order

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books

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• Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development, grammar, and all these thing, but then you use it instinctively. I ask myself this question all the time. I have no solid theory, I just do what I feel is right.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Character, Feelings, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Mind, Needs

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're not aware of the limitations of what you're up against... it's like a general: you have to know your artillery and you have to know your infantry. You have to know what you have. You have to marshal your forces and use them well. It comes down to the personal and the intimate, but at the same time you have to have the big picture.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Two, Track

  Source: www.chud.com

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