Filmmaker Quotes - Page 4

• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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• My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Teacher, Perfect One, Perfection

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• Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Negativity, Enemy

  "Interview With David Lynch: His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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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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• And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

  Maya Deren

  Art, Vision, Assuming

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• Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

  David Fincher

  Movie, Education, School

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

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• There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

  Martin Scorsese

  Simple, Directors, Cinema

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• Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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  All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.

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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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• 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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• 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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• This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

  David Lynch

  Movie, Inspiring, Heart

  "Fictional character: Lula Fortune". "Wild at Heart", 1990.

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• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie, Inspiring, Actors

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

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

  Edward Zwick

  Challenges, Stories, Fuel

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

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• A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

  Spike Lee

  Credit, Stuff, Movie Director

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• I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Stuff

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

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• Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

  David Cronenberg

  Philosophy, Vision, Kind

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• Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

  Banksy

  Movie, Inspiring, World

  "Banksy Breaks His Silence on ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’; Hints at Next Film" by Jordan Raup, thefilmstage.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

  Martin Scorsese

  Movie, Gambling, Film Directing

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 08, 2013

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• Self-plagiarism is style.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Inspiring, Self

  Alfred Hitchcock (2014). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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