Interesting Film Quotes – Insightful Thoughts On Movies, Cinema, And More
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“A Film is a Petrified Fountain of Thought.”
– Jean Cocteau
“A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.”
– Jean Renoir
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end… but not necessarily in that order.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
“Photography is Truth. The Cinema is Truth Twenty-four Times Per Second.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
“I’ve had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I’ve been very lucky that way.”
– Jeff Bridges
“This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.”
– Jeri Ryan
“I’m like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.”
– Jim Jarmusch
“There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.”
– John Baldacci
“In England, I’m a horror movie director. In Germany, I’m a filmmaker. In the US, I’m a bum.”
– John Carpenter
“It’s very much like filmmaking always is-you’re always asked to do something that you’re not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that’s really good.”
– John Dykstra
“Casting is 65 percent of directing.”
– John Frankenheimer
“Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that’s an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic – as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.”
– John Hughes
“I Don’t Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It’s Hard Enough to Know What I Like.”
– John Huston
“The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.”
– John Huston
“Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.”
– John Lasseter
“Everybody’s a filmmaker today.”
– John Milius
“Films are always pretentious. There’s nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.”
– John Milius
“Pain is temporary, film is forever!”
– John Milius
“I really took filmmaking very seriously… It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I’m a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.”
– John Singleton
“Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.”
– John Updike
“There’s such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.”
– Josh Lucas
“It’s dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.”
– Julia Leigh
“Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.”
– Julia Leigh
“If filmmaking was a beautiful woman, I would have trouble wooing her because she’s a needy jerk.”
– Justin Bundy
“A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it’s an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.”
– Karel Reisz
“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”
– Kathryn Bigelow
“I’m drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.”
– Kathryn Bigelow
“I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.”
– Keenen Ivory Wayans
“I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn’t really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.”
– Keenen Ivory Wayans
“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I’m working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don’t really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.”
– Kerry Washington
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