Filmmaking Quotes - Page 9

• I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Movie, Music, Art

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• I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

  Fede Alvarez

  Acting, Able, Aspect

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• I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of Romeo and Juliet, and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.

  Todd Haynes

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Kate Winslet, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people have these tools, the more people will learn how to use them, it's another argument I would argue for, personally, for art's education. Because there are kids who aren't that literate in screen language and they've got to know how people select shots, how people edit audio, how people combine things to make what they see on the screen. It would be like the 15th century or the 16th century in Germany, and somebody amends a printing press and you don't know how to read and write.

  Murray Horwitz

  Art, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.

  Claudia Llosa

  Men, Empathy, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Mean, Writing, Editing

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• For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

  Rupert Wyatt

  Stories, Firsts, Should

  "Director Rupert Wyatt Bets on Mark Wahlberg in 'The Gambler'". Interview with Nick Allen, www.hollywoodchicago.com. December 31, 2014.

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• I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

  Angela Bettis

  Perfection, Get Better, Progress

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• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  Rani Mukerji

  Girl, Writing, Ideas

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• I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

  Benjamin Lewin

  Fun, Pain, Stress

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• Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Ideas, People

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

  Lucy Walker

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

  Lucy Walker

  Fiction, Way, Documentaries

  "‘Crash Reel’ Documentarian Lucy Walker Knows Where She’s Going". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.

  Rainn Wilson

  Photography, Block, Writing

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Art, Acting, Emotion

  Source: collider.com

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• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

  David Lynch

  Keys, Intuition, Joining Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.

  Vin Diesel

  People, Shining, Effort

  "Strays - Vin Diesel interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.

  Brad Pitt

  Thinking, Quality, Found

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do it the best I can, [...] which is cold comfort.

  Woody Allen

  Comfort, Littles, Cold

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

  Noah Baumbach

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

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• Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

  Christophe Agou

  Photography, Art, Beneath The Surface

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• I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

  Shane Carruth

  Passion, Should, Decided

  "Shane Carruth, Indiedom's purist, on new movies and old regrets". Interview with Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 2013.

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• You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.

  Martin Scorsese

  Strong, Special, Needs

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• You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.

  Lowell Bergman

  Order, People, Technique

  "'The Insider' goes public". www.cnn.com. November 05, 1999.

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• We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Able, Chaos, Harness

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