Interesting Film Quotes – Insightful Thoughts On Movies, Cinema, And More
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“Life is Like a B-picture Script. It is That Corny. If I Had My Life Story Offered to Me to Film, I’d Turn It Down.”
– Kirk Douglas
“(When asked what a director does) I help.”
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
“Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it’s not brain surgery. It’s art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.”
– Lake Bell
“I think it’s a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.”
– Lars Von Trier
“Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor… The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.”
– Luc Dardenne
“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
– Martin Scorsese
“Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god… I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.”
– Martin Scorsese
“Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.”
– Matthew Fox
“The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He’s such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.”
– Max von Sydow
“It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.”
– Michael Apted
“I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I’m much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.”
– Michael Biehn
“I Am Certain There is Too Much Certainty in the World.”
– Michael Crichton
“A Team Effort is a Lot of People Doing What I Say.”
– Michael Winner
“To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it’s for them.”
– Michel Hazanavicius
“There’s nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker.”
– Mike Figgis
“But I don’t have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.”
– Mike Figgis
“The Only Safe Thing is to Take a Chance.”
– Mike Nichols
“But I love filmmaking – I’m not ashamed of that. You’re sort of vilified if you say that in England.”
– Minnie Driver
“John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.”
– Molly Ringwald
“For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.”
– Neil Jordan
“I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.”
– Nicholas Meyer
“If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it’s like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that’d sort of be the area of the field that I’m going to move into, I hope.”
– Nikki Reed
“But I would say maybe just from an actress’s perspective, probably ‘Woman Under the Influence’ is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances… you don’t feel like you’re watching a film.”
– Olivia Thirlby
“Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There’s always a lot of people working on things together.”
– Olivia Thirlby
“I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.”
– Orson Welles
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
– Orson Welles
“I like tits and ass. Mostly tits.”
– Paul Verhoeven
“You see so many movies… the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there’s no sense of film grammar. There’s no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It’s just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.”
– Peter Bogdanovich
“Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there’s stress or tension, they won’t go out on a limb because they won’t want to embarrass themselves if they don’t feel completely comfortable.”
– Peter Farrelly
“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.”
– Peter Jackson
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