Filmmaking Quotes on Storytelling & Craft – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Francis Ford Coppola

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

Joel Coen

Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.

Phillip Noyce

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

Ann Macbeth

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Ted Demme

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

Alain Resnais

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Spike Lee

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Angela Carter

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

Richard Linklater

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

John Dos Passos

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

Spike Lee

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

Alex Cox

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Bill Griffith

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

Carter Burwell

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

Richard Linklater

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

Brad Bird

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

Roger Penrose

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Arthur Erickson

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Guillermo del Toro

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

Sydney Pollack

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

Steven Spielberg

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

Niklas Zennstrom

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Sydney Pollack

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

Richard King

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Sarah Zettel

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

Pedro Almodovar

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

Edward Zwick

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

Terri Windling

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Federico Fellini

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

Norman McLaren

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Charles Keating

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

George Lucas

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Joseph Barbera

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

John Frankenheimer

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

Yahoo Serious

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Roland Joffe

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

Lasse Hallstrom

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

Julie Taymor

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

David Lynch

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

Marcel Carne

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

Darren Aronofsky

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

Walter Salles

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

Norman Jewison

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

J. D. Salinger

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Richard King

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

Adrian Lyne