Filmmaking Quotes on Storytelling & Craft – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

Mark Kennedy

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Taylor Hackford

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Robert MacNeil

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

Beth Henley

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

Norman McLaren

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Darren Aronofsky

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

Matthew Vaughn

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Brian Lumley

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

Ang Lee

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

Taylor Hackford

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

Gene Siskel

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

Jerry Bruckheimer

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

Guy Ritchie

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Sydney Pollack

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Roland Joffe

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Bill Forsyth

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

John Frankenheimer

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

Quentin Tarantino

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Norman McLaren

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

Patrice Leconte

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

Mike Figgis

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.

Tobe Hooper

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

Terry Southern

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

Renny Harlin

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Norman McLaren

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

Matthew Vaughn

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Brad Bird

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

Guillermo del Toro

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

Elmer Bernstein

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Walter Hill

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Roger Ebert

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Steven Bochco

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Francis Ford Coppola

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

Jan de Bont

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

Elmer Bernstein

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Federico Fellini

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

Dario Argento

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

George A. Romero

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Steven Bochco

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

Richard King

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Chaim Potok

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Quentin Tarantino

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

Sam Mendes

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Billy Wilder

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

Oliver Stone