Filmmaking Quotes - Page 11

• My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

  Steven Spielberg

  Technology, Cameras, Stories

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• Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

  Gus Van Sant

  Inspiration, Hendrix, Really Great

  Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

  Gus Van Sant

  Movie, Hunting, Actors

  Interview with Kimberly Gadette, www.oregonlive.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Actors, Kind

  Interview with Karan Johar, www.hindustantimes.com. November 4, 2012.

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• I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Creativity, Mean, Dissertation

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• 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

  Eli Roth

  Smart, Winning, Done

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• The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie, Jobs, Actors

  "Q&A: Christopher Nolan On Dreams, Architecture, And Ambiguity". Interview with Obert Capps, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

  Jason Reitman

  Movie, Art, Mistake

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. December 4, 2009.

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• I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

  Charlize Theron

  Movie, Independent, Careers

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• I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Artist, Thinking, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And if you don't go for great, you won't end up with good. You've got to go beyond your wildest dreams because the exigencies of filmmaking are going to smash you into the ordinary.

  Fred Schepisi

  Dream, Art, Motivation

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• The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Book, Eye, Cutting

  Interview with Charles Reynolds, Popular Photography, 1960.

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• I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

  Derek Magyar

  Actors, Firsts, Love Films

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• I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

  Derek Magyar

  Art, Aspect

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• During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set. While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else. By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way. I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’

  Akira Kurosawa

  Believe, Mean, Eye

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• Once I hit 25, I realized I had to do more than just be an actor. I love acting, but there's something that makes it difficult to just be a man, a grownup. Not to take away from any actors, but I knew I wasn't going to be Tom Cruise. I knew I was a character actor, which is great and I'm proud of it. But I knew that I wanted to do more. I started producing and directing and writing and stuff for the theater, and then that grew out of hand and I sort of lost my control. I've always loved the process of filmmaking. Now I'm much more into producing docs, but I want to direct features.

  Fisher Stevens

  Writing, Character, Men

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

  Tony Kushner

  Movie, Angel, Play

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• If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

  William Mapother

  Thinking, Marketing, Actors

  "Going on From Lost, Actor William Mapother Heads to Another Earth". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

  George Hickenlooper

  Movie, Art, Thinking

  "Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His “Zelig” with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenh". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. March 26, 2004.

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• The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

  Eric Stoltz

  Movie, College, Actors

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• The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, Interesting, Good Movie

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• Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.

  Elliot Grove

  Careers, Ploughing, Tools

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• One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

  Paul Schrader

  Problem, Solve

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Mean, Views

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based in the work of a team. Anyway, Werner he told us a lot of practical things. How to hang a hammock. He'd circle a map and give us a notebook with directions to get to certain places that were out of the way. He told us to drink the river water and not use purifications tactics that only "New Age assholes" used. He said that if we saw piranhas, we should jump in and swim with them. We did all of this. We took his word as gospel.

  Sam Pressman

  Notebook, Teamwork, Art

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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