Filmmaker Quotes - Page 8

• Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

  Richard Linklater

  Film, Paint, Painter

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Believe, Directors, Common

  "Grizzly Man", 2006.

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• You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Life, Memories, Remembrance

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

  Shaun Tan

  Discovery, Car, Trying

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• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

  Gordon Parks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

  Robert Duvall

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Life is adventure, not predicament.

  James Broughton

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

  Stephen King

  Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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• Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Texas, Order, Understanding

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• Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Love, Dream, Time

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• Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Paul Strand

  Life, Photography, Records

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• Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

  William Klein

  Inspirational, Photography, Being Yourself

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• Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Beautiful, Art, Truth

  "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.

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• The best director is the one you don't see.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Directors

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

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• I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Life, Want, Famous Women

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• A day without laughter is a day wasted.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Good Morning, Happiness

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• I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

  Theodore Bikel

  Fear, Giving, Wonder

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• A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Editing, Ideas

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• The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

  Stanley Tucci

  Individualism, Practicals

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• Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

  Wim Wenders

  Sometimes, Critics

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Confused, Mean, Independent

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• I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

  Roland Emmerich

  Scientist

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• There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Latin, Latino, Right Now

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