Filmmaking Quotes on Storytelling & Craft – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Bob Graham

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

Guillermo del Toro

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

Ed Wood

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

Walter Jon Williams

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Jan de Bont

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

Robert Conrad

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Roger Ebert

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

Mary McCarthy

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

Yahoo Serious

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Jan de Bont

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

William Goldman

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Wim Wenders

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

John Frankenheimer

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Doris Lessing

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

Alex Cox

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Conrad Hall

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Martin Scorsese

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

Alex Cox

The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.

Chester Brown

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Roger Ebert

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Julie Taymor

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

Jacques Rivette

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

Andrzej Wajda

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

Wim Wenders

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

Richard King

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

Douglas Trumbull

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

Bruce Beresford

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

Norman McLaren

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.

Bill Sienkiewicz

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Cy Coleman

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

Joe Eszterhas

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Spike Lee

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

Edward Zwick

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Alain Resnais

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Sydney Pollack

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

David Mamet

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

Joel Siegel

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Roger Ebert

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

Pedro Almodovar

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

Mike Figgis

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

Guy Ritchie

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Jean-Luc Godard

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

Robert Conrad

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

Dario Argento