Filmmaking Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  Ben Affleck

  Philosophy, Taken, Writing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .

  Charlize Theron

  Real, Nice, Responsibility

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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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• 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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• There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.

  Walter Murch

  Ideas, Two, Perfection

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• You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it's important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.

  Dennis Hopper

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Dennis Hopper, Nick Dawson (2012). “Dennis Hopper: Interviews”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

  John Lasseter

  Technology, Thinking, Surround Sound

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• Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Hard Work, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if you use them for that early stage of support for things.

  Steven Price

  Thinking, Support, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

  Jon Bernthal

  Boxing, Shy, Nervous

  Source: collider.com

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• The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up for work. They are seasoned filmmakers over there. They have an infrastructure for filmmaking, which is very healthy. It's small, but they were tenacious, polite, timely.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Running, White, Healthy

  Source: collider.com

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• I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to be a part of the movie business and make movies. That's why I went to AFI grad school for filmmaking.

  Jeff Vespa

  School, Inspired, Grad

  "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.

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• The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with any of the systems, whether it's Red, Sony, or whatever.

  Michael Seresin

  Red, Sony, Machinery

  Source: collider.com

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• The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

  Miranda July

  Levels, Boring, Moments

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

  Vin Diesel

  Art, Magic, Trying

  "Interview: Vin Diesel". Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

  James Woods

  Jobs, Sex, Lines

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• I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to come by. It turns out I really love the process. And, it's exciting to be able to take my career by the reigns and make things happen for myself. Hopefully, in doing so, more opportunities will become available to me.

  Katie Aselton

  Character, Opportunity, Careers

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

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• There is a whole separate filmmaking team that's doing it, but that's part of what's great about the Brain Trust and about the inspiring leadership of John Lasseter. He leaves it up to that creative group of individuals to help each other elevate each thing that they're working on to only try to make it better and to share what you've learned on the first one.

  Klay Hall

  Team, Creative, Brain

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

  M.I.A.

  Teaching, College, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.

  Ben Affleck

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

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

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• Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.

  Ang Lee

  Believe, Responsibility, Years

  "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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• I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

  John Kahrs

  Thinking, Storytelling, Force

  Source: collider.com

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