Filmmaking Quotes on Storytelling & Craft – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

Jay Roach

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Federico Fellini

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

David Antin

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

Frank Capra

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

John Milius

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film.

Renny Harlin

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Lars von Trier

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

Dino De Laurentiis

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

Wim Wenders

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

Dan Glickman

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

Leonard Maltin

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Jan de Bont

Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.

Lawrence Halprin

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

Claude Chabrol

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

Wim Wenders

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Lasse Hallstrom

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Pedro Almodovar

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Alex North

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Andrzej Wajda

There's an electrical thing about movies.

Oliver Stone

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

Bill Condon

The movies were custard compared to politics.

Nancy Reagan

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

Patrice Leconte

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Martin Scorsese

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

David Cronenberg

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

David R. Ellis

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

Joel Coen

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

You are not an active creator of the film.

Sydney Pollack

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Carter Burwell

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Neil Jordan

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

Jay Roach

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

Andrzej Wajda

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

Vinton Cerf

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Roland Joffe

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Jonathan Lethem

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

Richard Linklater

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Yahoo Serious

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Neil Jordan

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Angela Carter

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

John Sayles

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Roman Polanski

I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.

James Meade

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Francois Truffaut

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

Richard King