Filmmaker Quotes - Page 3

• Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

  Sydney Pollack

  Writing, Editing, Form

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

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• While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box - office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it's the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.

  Willem Dafoe

  Art, Strong, Monday

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

  Frank Capra

  Advice, Trends, Young

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

  Peter Morgan

  Ambition, Long, Collaboration

  Source: deadline.com

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

  Stan Brakhage

  Mean, Honor, Quality

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  There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Inspirational, Bangs, Cinema

  "Attributed to Alfred Hitchcock in "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion"". 1984.

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• It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

  Sofia Coppola

  Life, Running, Missing Someone

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• A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Love You, Heart

  "Fictional character: Cinderella". "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

  Jane Campion

  Movie, Real, Women

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head

  Maya Deren

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• Living
  consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
  responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
  moment.

  Sidney Poitier

  Honesty, African American, Live In The Moment

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

  Gene Wilder

  Movie, Goodbye, Farewell

  "Fictional character: Claude". "Start the Revolution Without Me", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, African American, Cameras

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• When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

  Tyler Perry

  Strong Women, Moving, Heaven

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• Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  John Ford

  Photography, Art, Eye

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

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• Music takes us where words cannot.

  Henry Winkler

  Music, Art, Comedian

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• Give me B movies or give me death!

  Clive Barker

  Movie, Giving, Cinema

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 16, 2013

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• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

  John Cassavetes

  Inspirational, Children, Creativity

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• The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

  Dennis Hopper

  Movie, Men, Mad

  "Fictional character: Photojournalist". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

  Sean Penn

  Love, Believe, Reciprocity

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