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Famous Filmmaking Quotes

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

Francis Ford Coppola

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Arthur Erickson

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Oliver Stone

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Sam Mendes

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Orson Scott Card

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Neil Jordan

Inspirational Filmmaking Quotes

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Roger Ebert

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

Ken Burns

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

Andrzej Wajda

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Wim Wenders

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Quentin Tarantino

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

Mike Figgis

Quotes About the Craft of Filmmaking

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Jack Vance

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

Wim Wenders

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

Dario Argento

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Neil LaBute

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

Renny Harlin

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

Jack Kilby

More Filmmaking Quotes

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Steven Soderbergh

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Walter Salles

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Oliver Stone

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

Neil Jordan

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

Norman Jewison

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Carter Burwell

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Stephen Sondheim

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

Don Bluth

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

Jim Fowler

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

Yahoo Serious

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Sydney Pollack

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Alfred Hitchcock

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

Atom Egoyan

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

Neil Jordan

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

David Cronenberg

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

Steven Soderbergh

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

James Lipton

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

Yahoo Serious

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Yahoo Serious

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Jacques Delors

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Sam Mendes

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

John Frankenheimer

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

Steven Soderbergh

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Matthew Vaughn

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Martin Scorsese

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

Uwe Boll

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

Richard Linklater

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

Walter Salles

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

Francis Ford Coppola

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Don DeLillo

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

James Cameron

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

Yahoo Serious

Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.

Bill Condon

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

Patricia Highsmith

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

Brad Bird

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Alfred Hitchcock

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

Sam Mendes

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

Atom Egoyan

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Patricia Highsmith

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

Steven Soderbergh

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

W. Averell Harriman

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

Ralph Bakshi

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

Bruce Beresford

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

Ralph Bakshi

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

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