Filmmaking Quotes - Page 6

• I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Actors, Narrative

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• As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

  Stanley Tucci

  Style, Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

  John Cassavetes

  Risk, Willing

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• Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

  John Cassavetes

  Mean, Artist, People

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• As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

  John Cassavetes

  Artist, Trying, Failing

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

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• I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 6, 2005.

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• What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

  Todd Solondz

  Fun, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Jobs, Ideas

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• I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, "read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking," or films that I should quote as examples.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Book, Example

  Source: collider.com

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• That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.

  Tim Burton

  Beautiful, Joy, Film

  "Interview: Tim Burton Talks Big Eyes, Margaret Keane, and More". Interview with Elise Nakhnikian, www.slantmagazine.com. December 19, 2014.

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• As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

  Steve McQueen

  Art, Separation, Concerned

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Actors, Film

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• I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.

  Nicolas Cowan

  Thinking, Cameras, World

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

  Taika Waititi

  Interesting, Want, Keep Learning

  Source: collider.com

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• I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

  Damian Kulash

  Ideas, Shooting, Weight

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Powerful, Moving, Behavior

  Source: collider.com

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• Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Horse, Imagination, Bucks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sidney Lumet is one of my favorite filmmakers. I feel like his approach to filmmaking was always so human. He was always making movies about the people. He wasn't about the tricks, you know what I mean? From 12 Angry Men on. Another film of his which I really, really love is Prince of the City, with Treat Williams, which is kind of a lost classic. Lumet is one of those film heroes that changed movies for everyone.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Hero, Mean, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

  Mark Webber

  Writing, Process, Theme

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Trying, Stories, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible - from the real, in a way. It's like white light - if you put everyday reality through a prism you get this rainbow of colors that you couldn't see before. I'm interested in exploring the world to show the things that are invisible. And not just undocumented aspects of reality, but to actually make manifest things that have been hitherto invisible through the intervention of filmmaking.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Real, Thinking, Rainbow

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

  Greg MacGillivray

  Mind, Satisfying

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

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• There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.

  Debra Granik

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone.

  Debra Granik

  Encounters, Olive Branches, Able

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

  Ben Whishaw

  Ideas, People, Bigs

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

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