Filmmaking Quotes

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

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.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

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.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

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

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

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.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

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.