Filmmaking Quotes - Page 22

• Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Giving Up, Writing, Years

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

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• At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking photographs at the same time, and architecture, though it had the design element, it didn't have the narrative, emotional element that I was looking to do. I ended up painting for a while. I was dancing around it, and I realized that all these different interests came together in filmmaking.

  Neil Burger

  Emotional, Dancing, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.

  Matthew Specktor

  Individual, Process, Scales

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on all of our radars much more than it has been since the moonshots. The science of filmmaking is making these visions possible now.

  Jon Spaihts

  Thinking, Space, Vision

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

  Errol Morris

  Talking, Long, Killers

  Source: collider.com

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• It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

  Felicity Jones

  Rehearsal, Approach, Theatrical

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Comedian, Actors, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats: comedy sketches, talk shows, debate programs, art variety shows, quiz shows. These enable me to meet interesting people with interesting stories and to learn about interesting subjects, all of which I can reflect into film.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Art, Writing, Tv Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We with Komplizen Film believe very much in the writer-director and in the freedom of a filmmaker. I think it's always good to be involved where you spend the money. Filmmaking, you see in the picture what the money's spent for. I never had to leave a phase of filmmaking before being really happy, and that was really a big luxury. That could happen, I think, because I am my own producer.

  Maren Ade

  Believe, Thinking, Being Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.

  Clea DuVall

  Acting, Inspired

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• If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

  Dan Fox

  Creative, Outsiders, Painting

  "Dan Fox and the Virtues of Pretension". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2016.

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• What is exciting today is that with technology filmmaking has been democratized, and so many more people have access to making a film.

  Julie Smolyansky

  Technology, People, Today

  "Interview: Producer & CEO Julie Smolyansky, 2017 Women in Film Chicago Focus Awards Honoree". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. February 21, 2017.

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• None of our films look alike, we are very dialectical in our approach to each one, and 'Hoop Dreams' was no exception. 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.' Out of that comes the story, which was exactly what happened with 'Hoop Dreams.'

  Gordon Quinn

  Dream, People, Culture

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• 'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly three hours long and with no star power - was an outreach to a different and more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there was also a new audience that weren't empathetic or sympathetic to the people we were portraying. They would never watch a film about inner city families, but they watched 'Hoop Dreams.'

  Gordon Quinn

  Dream, Powerful, Struggle

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The amazing fact that one person can make his own film - I think animation is somewhat unique in that respect. I don't need to deal with lawyers. I don't need to deal with corporations. I don't need to deal with executives or agents or any of that. I can just sit at home and make a feature film. That's a wonderful experience. Each film I make gets more popular, more press and makes more money. So it's amazing that I've survived and actually prospered doing that sort of homegrown, cottage-industry filmmaking.

  Bill Plympton

  Home, Unique, Thinking

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• I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be going back into studio filmmaking with a different sense of their own agency, and a different sense of the respect that they can command. When you asked the question about whether women want to be making big studio movies, the answer is almost always yes. It's just, how do they want to be treated? What is that experience going to be? And if you know the experience is gonna be shitty going into it, I personally am at a place where I'm not willing to punish myself any longer.

  Karyn Kusama

  Thinking, Different, Filmmaker

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I love that about filmmaking - seeing final product and getting to see everyone else that you don't necessarily engage with on set every day and getting them to showcase their talents. Whether it's effects, music, the edit, the rhythm of a film is driven by that, so it's cool to see it come together. It's great to be standing in front of something you're genuinely proud of.

  Jai Courtney

  Together, Proud, Talent

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

  Michael Keaton

  Sports, Team, Ultimate

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• I went for a more classical approach to filmmaking with lots of dolly, track and cranes, and slightly slower, more choreographed fight moves, so you get more fight moves in one take.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Moving, Fighting, Track

  Source: collider.com

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• 3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Years, Way, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

  Gus Van Sant

  Different, Really Weird, Knows

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

  Robert Greene

  Black And White, Opposites, Documentaries

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• I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Paper, Shy

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• There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Reality, Missing, Technique

  Source: www.pbs.org

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