Filmmaking Quotes - Page 12

• I feel like I'm a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking. I went and visited Roger on the set of Dinoshark and that's in the movie. That's where I really got a big whopping taste of what it's like to be on one of his sets.

  Alex Stapleton

  School, Roger, Taste

  Source: collider.com

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• I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Scary, Fancy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

  Jane Campion

  Home, Trying, Directors

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 117, 2009.

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• You can't print everything and that's not good for filmmaking, because you wanna have as many options as possible and print as much as you can, but if you're going to shoot a film - an independent movie on film, the only way to really do it is to print your selects.

  Logan Lerman

  Independent, Way, Film

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

  Nicolas Cage

  Roots, Acting, World

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• It's really interesting to observe each filmmaker's approach to filmmaking and I feel very fortunate to have worked with a lot of really interesting filmmakers and they all approach their job in unique ways.

  Logan Lerman

  Jobs, Unique, Interesting

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.

  William H. Macy

  Years, Two, Garbage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Through my newspaper comic strip, public speaking, and filmmaking, I try to tell as many people as possible, of all ages and from all walks of life, that we are destroying the ocean at such an alarming rate that we can't wait for a systematic solution. We can't wait for our political leadership to warm up to the idea, and we can't wait for the free market to find alternatives. We must act as individuals, now.

  Jim Toomey

  Ocean, Ideas, People

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• Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

  Matthew Fox

  Movie, Character, Mosaics

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• I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.

  Yony Leyser

  Mom, Art, School

  "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within". Interview with Paul Hawkins, www.outsideleft.com. March 2010.

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• The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

  Elisa Kreisinger

  Ideas, Style, Eras

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• Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

  James Franco

  Editing, Actors, Changed

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• I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the reasons was, I wanted to know what the toy box was like. And it's just insane, the amount of facility that everyone gets, but the amount of artistry and craft that's brought to every aspect of filmmaking. I mean, you go to your first costume fitting and it's one of thirty. It's a myriad, but it's for a reason. There are so many incredible costumes in this.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mean, Doctors, Insane

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

  Wayne White

  Long, Cameras, Hollywood

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Narrative, Theme, Mantras

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

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• Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

  Vera Farmiga

  Movie, Editing, Actors

  "Actress Farmiga at Sundance with directing debut". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.reuters.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

  Tasha Smith

  Creative, Acting, Passionate

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• Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I do every time, it's part of my production structure. He said when you're hiring an actor, ask them what draws them to the project, and don't lead them to the answer.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Book, Actors, Answers

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

  Justin Bartha

  Character, Interesting, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Character, Simple, Directors

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• I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

  James Franco

  Views, Directors, Mediums

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• You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

  Werner Herzog

  Drones, Tools, Prudent

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Home, Naps, Ordinary World

  Source: collider.com

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• I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight men, but cis men - have had their hands on the narrative ever since filmmaking has begun.

  Jill Soloway

  Real, Thinking, Men

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.

  Hannes Holm

  Writing, Night, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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