Movie Making Quotes
Movie Making Quote of the day
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.
It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."
Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.
It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.
Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.
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.
I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)
A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.
Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.
Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.
Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.
Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.
Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.
A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.
Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.
The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.
Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.