Filmmaking Quotes

There are no rules in filmmaking

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

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.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

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

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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.

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.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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.

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.

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

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

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.

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

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.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

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

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.'

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a hundred other places we can try. I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully. But I think there are far fewer options now to releasing a movie theatrically or to getting the financing.

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

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

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.

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

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

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

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

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

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

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