Filmmaking Quotes on Storytelling & Craft – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

Guillermo del Toro

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Alain Resnais

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Alan Rudolph

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

Patrice Leconte

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

Lawrence Kasdan

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Alan Rudolph

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

Peter Bart

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

Norman Jewison

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

Edward Dmytryk

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

Adrian Lyne

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

Dino De Laurentiis

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Billy Wilder

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Jack Valenti

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

Mark Rydell

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

Sydney Pollack

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Douglas Sirk

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

Godfrey Reggio

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

John Milius

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

John Milius

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

Chuck Jones

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

Milos Forman

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

Christopher Durang

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

Mike Figgis

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Antoine Fuqua

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

Bobby Farrelly

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Matthew Vaughn

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

Jim McKay

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

Conrad Hall

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

Philip Kaufman

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Ted Kotcheff

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

George A. Romero

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Trevor Nunn

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

Pedro Almodovar

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

Mary Schmich

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Quentin Tarantino

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Satyajit Ray

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

Ann Macbeth

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

Estelle Morris

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

Leonard Maltin

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

Ed Wood

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

Philip Kaufman

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Sydney Pollack

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

James Lipton