Filmmaking Quotes - page 2

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark? (Alexander Payne)

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

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

Antoine Fuqua

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Alain Resnais

The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

Dayo Okeniyi

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

Derek Magyar

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

Drew Goddard

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

Ed Wood

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

Frederick Wiseman

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

Fede Alvarez

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work. (Gale Anne Hurd)

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Greg Kinnear

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Greg MacGillivray

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

Griffin Dunne

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

Gena Rowlands

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

Irvin Kershner

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

J. C. Chandor

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Jason Reitman

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

J. Lee Thompson

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

Jehane Noujaim

Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them. (Justin Bartha)

Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

Justin Chadwick

We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Kenneth Lonergan

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

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