Filmmaking Quotes

If you don't lose first you are not entitled to win.

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.

Transform into your dream.

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.

Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.

If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.

Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.

The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

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

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.