Interesting Film Quotes – Insightful Thoughts On Movies, Cinema, And More
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“A Hunch is Creativity Trying to Tell You Something.”
– Frank Capra
“If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.”
– Frank Capra
“There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.”
– Frank Capra
“You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.”
– Frederick Wiseman
“I love independent filmmaking. I don’t agree with a lot of it, but that’s the point.”
– Gena Rowlands
“As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I’m trapped in a genre that I love, but I’m trapped in it!”
– George A. Romero
“If I were ever stranded on a desert island there would be three things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.”
– George C. Scott
“I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you’re creating something.”
– George Hickenlooper
“I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.”
– George Hickenlooper
“Although I Write Screenplays, I Don’t Think I’m a Good Writer.”
– George Lucas
“But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences – is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.”
– George Lucas
“People Watch Luck Go by Them and They’re Blind – They Never Reach out and Grab It.”
– George Roy Hill
“Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.”
– Greg Kinnear
“Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.”
– Griffin Dunne
“And Later I Thought, I Can’t Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.”
– Gus Van Sant
“Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He’s always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.”
– Gus Van Sant
“I’d come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making ‘Good Will Hunting’ was experimental because I didn’t know how to do it.”
– Gus Van Sant
“You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.”
– Guy Ritchie
“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
“I’m a storyteller – that’s the chief function of a director. And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ‘em move!”
– Howard Hawks
“The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.”
– Hugh Grant
“No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
– Ingmar Bergman
“I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don’t even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn’t want to use it.”
– J. Lee Thompson
“Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.”
– James Cameron
“I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it’s real, and you’re really there.”
– Jamie Bell
“I wasn’t a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star – I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.”
– Jason Lee
“Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.”
– Jason Reitman
“People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don’t. I don’t want people to think that I’m trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that’s cheap filmmaking.”
– Jason Reitman
“Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.”
– Jason Reitman
“I love making people laugh. It’s an addiction and it’s probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there’s no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.”
– Jay Roach
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