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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
Werner Herzog
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When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.
Andrea Arnold
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You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
John Cassavetes
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Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
John Cassavetes
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
Lars von Trier
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To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.
Taika Waititi
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To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.
Don Hertzfeldt
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For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
Neil Jordan
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
Steven Spielberg
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I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.
Gus Van Sant
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One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.
Paul Schrader
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To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.
Christopher Nolan
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It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.
Shia LaBeouf
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Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
Claire Denis
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Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.
Gaspar Noe
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I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.
Dagur Kari
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Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.
Shane Carruth
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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.
Takashi Miike
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In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.
George Lucas
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I really got into filmmaking through photography.
Todd Phillips
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I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be going back into studio filmmaking with a different sense of their own agency, and a different sense of the respect that they can command. When you asked the question about whether women want to be making big studio movies, the answer is almost always yes. It's just, how do they want to be treated? What is that experience going to be? And if you know the experience is gonna be shitty going into it, I personally am at a place where I'm not willing to punish myself any longer.
Karyn Kusama
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However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
Andrzej Wajda
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This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.
Steve Antin
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Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.
Peter Mullan
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Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.
Renee O'Connor
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The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.
Nandita Das
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I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
Baz Luhrmann
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One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.
Rick Heinrichs
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In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.
Mark Sheppard
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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.
Gary Cole
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My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.
Alrick Brown
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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
James Franco
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When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
Jehane Noujaim
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I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.
Kim Gordon
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The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.
Nina Jacobson
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I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
Darren Aronofsky
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Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
Terry Gilliam
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I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.
Frank Darabont
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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.
John Boorman
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Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
M. Night Shyamalan
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That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in many ways. It's a relationship between what you thought might have been the story, and what happens in the 'field.'
Gordon Quinn