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.

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.

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

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.

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.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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."

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.

Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

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

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.