Filmmaking Quotes

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

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

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

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

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.

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

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.

I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

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

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

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

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over the years that it has become much easier.

I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

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.

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

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.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

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

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

Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.

Some people live, eat and breathe art, and they love acting and filmmaking. I've got other loves. I love animals. I love teaching. I love kids. That's always something in the back of my mind.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.