Filmmaker Quotes - Page 40

• If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.

  Matt Groening

  Brother, Father, Adventure

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• As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

  Michael Haneke

  Film, Parody, Genre

  "Decade: Michael Haneke Talks 'Code Inconnu' and 'The Piano Teacher'". www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

  Jonah Hill

  Stars, Actors, Fanatics

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• I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

  Tom Hooper

  Would Be, Clarity, Decided

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• The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Vcr, Giants

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• As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Funny, Thinking, Horrible

  "RT Interview: Charlie Kaufman on 'Synecdoche, New York'". Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

  Ang Lee

  People, Giving, Chance

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

  David Lynch

  Suffering, Scene, Shows

  "The Visionary". Interview With Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2008.

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• As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.

  Michael Mann

  Night, Views, Years

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• My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

  Joni Mitchell

  Girl, Style, Frustrated

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• Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

  Michael Moore

  Artist, Thrive

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• For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

  Michael Moore

  Documentaries, Wells

  "Michael Moore, Piers Morgan Clash Over Moore’s Wealth" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

  Michael Moore

  Motivation, Mean, Would Be

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• I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, People, Good Movie

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• I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Medicine, Documentaries

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• I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

  Christopher Nolan

  Responsibility, Technology, Quality

  "Christopher Nolan Talks 3D, Why He Shoots IMAX, His Approach to CGI, and Much More in Fascinating DGA Interview" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

  Alexander Payne

  Energy, Degrees, Needs

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• I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Needs, Documentaries

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• Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

  Jason Reitman

  Son, Thinking, Careers

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

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• Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.

  Jason Reitman

  Art, Unique, Play

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• The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

  Jonas Mekas

  Focus, Cameras, Video

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• I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way.

  Nicolas Cage

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Nicolas Cage Gets Deadly in Bangkok Dangerous". Conference call, movieweb.com. September 09, 2008.

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• Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I'm going to put it out there."

  George Lucas

  Hands, Perfect, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

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