Filmmaking Quotes - Page 8

• I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

  Larry Fessenden

  Fans, Stories, Way

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• Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Magic, Logistics, Film

  "Aaron Eckhart Talks THE RUM DIARY and I, FRANKENSTEIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

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• It's all about loyalty and collaboration, gathering your gang around you, finding your soulmate in filmmaking because it is a collaborative process. When failure happens, that family you gathered regroups around you and gives you the fresh energy you're lacking.

  Matthew Jacobs

  Loyalty, Soulmate, Giving

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• Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

  Joshua Marston

  Photography, Political, Gathering

  Source: collider.com

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• When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Thinking, Want, Activist

  "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.

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• There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

  J. C. Chandor

  Avant Garde, Elements, Taste

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• I suppose I've been working for a long time, so I've seen all kinds of filmmaking. I can fit into anything, and it doesn't feel that weird or that fascinating.

  Elijah Wood

  Long, Kind, Fit

  Source: collider.com

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• In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

  Michael Haneke

  Unexpected Gifts, Cinema, Actors

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, People, Would Be

  "Ken Burns and Yusef Salaam Talk THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE; Plus Burns Talks Upcoming Projects like THE ROOSEVELTS, JACKIE ROBINSON and VIETNAM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2012.

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• I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Mirrors, Angle

  Source: collider.com

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• Because of the cumbersome nature of filmmaking, it's only recently that it has become available to the masses, with digital equipment and laptop computers. You can now actually make a pretty serviceable movie for very little money by yourself.

  John Landis

  Littles, Laptops, Digital

  Source: collider.com

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• When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking.

  Rob Minkoff

  Character, Hands, Always Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.

  James Cameron

  Guy, Historical, Trying

  "Cameron: Jesus tomb film is a "detective story". Today Interview, www.today.com. February 27, 2007.

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• My god is narrative filmmaking.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Narrative

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

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• There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.

  Jimmy Chin

  Commitment, Climbing, Risk

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I love filmmaking when fate is a part of the process and you are dependent on the laws of physics and the elements to get a single moment that transports or in some way creates an illusion even for a moment. I think that is tremendous fun and what I think filmmaking is, catching lightning in a bottle.

  Larry Fessenden

  Fun, Single Mom, Fate

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Believe, Moments, Nostalgic

  Source: collider.com

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• At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

  George Hickenlooper

  Creating, Documentaries, Foundation

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.

  George Hickenlooper

  Art, Real, Creating

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

  George Hickenlooper

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ethics

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured.

  Vin Diesel

  Play, Actors, Stuff

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• I never really cared much for Hollywood or movies. But the curiosity for filmmaking, and expanding myself as an actor and my curiosity for people and portraying them, just has grown. And that's from simply being involved in the industry. But it was never a goal of mine as a kid.

  Heath Ledger

  Kids, People, Goal

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• A big part of filmmaking, and a big part of the power of filmmaking, is creating characters that people fall in love with. So, those things, like the bloopers, create more reality and dimension, and the sense that these are not drawings or shadows, but they are living, breathing, thinking characters. That's the illusion.

  Rob Minkoff

  Falling In Love, Character, Reality

  "Director Rob Minkoff Exclusive Interview THE LION KING 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.

  Zach Braff

  Technology, Men, Watches

  "Zach Braff Talks Working on a Large-Scale Epic, Collaborating with Sam Raimi, 3D Technology, and More on the Set of OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL". collider.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really that you know about as far as Los Angeles is concerned. And so you go and you look at Joan Crawford's hands and feet and the whole history of American filmmaking is encapsulated in that one little area on that one street. That street, to me, has always been the street of dream.

  Helen Mirren

  Dream, Feet, Hands

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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