Filmmaking Quotes - Page 15

• The good thing about being in advertising was a lot of the skills cross over: you have to be accountable for your jokes; you have to tell a story quickly. It's the most expensive filmmaking foot-for-foot in the world, so it does teach you how to use all of the machines and how to think of things in terms of the physical process of capturing the images. And you have to sell your work. You have to walk into whatever it is and stand up in the middle of a conference room with a storyboard in your hand and make people laugh.

  Victor Levin

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I realized I was more interested in all the aspects of filmmaking as opposed to all the aspects of theater, which is what you would have to do if you studied acting at a liberal arts school. And so I thought, "Oh, I'll meet directors and filmmakers, and I'm an actress, so I'll become friends with them and hopefully be in their movies." And then It worked!

  Sophia Takal

  Art, Growing Up, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Of the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I feel is the least wrong, the least fake. It is fake, it is a moment that I choose to erupt the story, but I make it as smooth as I can. What enables me to do it is the skill of filmmaking.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Skills, Fake, Exit

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Imagine, Ultimate Freedom, Screens

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

  Alex Gibney

  Mutants, World, Tradition

  Source: www.salon.com

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• That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in many ways. It's a relationship between what you thought might have been the story, and what happens in the 'field.'

  Gordon Quinn

  People, Culture

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Fashion, Giving, Digital

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Community, Germany, Goebbels

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.

  Katie Aselton

  Thinking, Class, Levels

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Different, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Other Cultures, Challenges, Common

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Trying, Stories, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

  Kelly Reichardt

  Lonely

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition, where filmmaking teams have just 72 hours to conceive, write, shoot, edit and submit a film based on a common theme. The winners were announced during the 38th Asian American International Film Festival in New York last July. The theme for 2015 was 'Two Faces' and was part of a larger more general theme of 'Beauty'.

  Garth Kravits

  New York, Team, Writing

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• I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Exercise, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films, but don't just watch films, go take a walk, look at the sky, read a book about meteorology, look at the design of people's shoes. Because all of them are part of filmmaking." So I thought, perfect! That's a good job for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Perfect, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film was so collaborative. I thought as a photographer I could make something that was artistic and that was mine, and I liked that. And it wasn't until I got back into film and I have very small crews and I could do very tiny filmmaking that wasn't 100 people that I still felt that I was making something artistic as a filmmaker. So, you know, I'm an artist, and whether it's photography or film, I want my voice to be there and I think my voice is very strong in this film.

  Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

  Photography, Art, Strong

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

  Denis Villeneuve

  Kids, Listening, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

  Ethan Hawke

  Design, Acting, Elements

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

  Paul Greengrass

  Views, Directors, Way

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still like to make: a very talky film of people and ideas about our contemporary state with regard to relationships, marriage, sex, and romance. I started trying to educate myself about filmmaking.

  Charles Ferguson

  Sex, Ideas, People

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. November 28, 2011.

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• I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

  Charles Ferguson

  Thinking, Trying, Kind

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. November 28, 2011.

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• We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie ["Sicario"], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.

  John Krasinski

  Wise, Trying, Storytelling

  "John Krasinski Is Looking To Push The Limits In Hollywood". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I'm always happy when I learn more about communication in the wide free scope of that word. So next is a move, getting the film made and working on more music everyday which is equally large in my being as filmmaking.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  Moving, Communication, Everyday

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think a lot of people go into filmmaking thinking, "How can I make a career?" And so when they make their first film, they make it thinking, "Well, this'll be the one that gets me to the place where I can make the second film the way I want to make it, and that'll get me to the place where I can make $100 million on the third film." And I thought, "Well, if I put sustainability at the bottom of my priority list, then what opportunities is that going to free me up to pursue?" And that's what I've always done.

  Andrew Bujalski

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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