Interesting Film Quotes – Insightful Thoughts On Movies, Cinema, And More
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“The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in… I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.”
– Charlton Heston
“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today’s movies. They believe everything they’re hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”
– Christopher Nolan
“The Best Actors Instinctively Feel out What the Other Actors Need, and They Just Accommodate It.”
– Christopher Nolan
“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.”
– Christopher Nolan
“I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn’t want to do just one thing.”
– Christopher Nolan
“Anxiety is the Handmaiden of Creativity.”
– Chuck Jones
“You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we’re all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you’re doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.”
– Danny Huston
“I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.”
– Darren Aronofsky
“I’ve always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There’s hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn’t hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.”
– Darren Aronofsky
“I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.”
– Darren Aronofsky
“If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.”
– Daryl F. Zanuck
“Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.”
– Daryl Hannah
“Censors Tend to Do What Only Psychotics Do: They Confuse Reality With Illusion.”
– David Cronenberg
“I don’t have a moral plan, I’m a Canadian.”
– David Cronenberg
“The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It’s not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.”
– David Cronenberg
“This Whole World is Wild at Heart and Weird on Top.”
– David Lynch
“Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.”
– David McNally
“The biggest thing people tell me is that I’ll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.”
– Dayo Okeniyi
“I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.”
– Diane Lane
“Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I’ve never worked with anyone I’ve trusted so completely. He won’t let you hit a false note.”
– Dianne Wiest
“I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.”
– Dileep Rao
“Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It’s about the big picture.”
– Ed Wood
“Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there’s nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It’s that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice – it’s that times 800.”
– Eddie Redmayne
“I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.”
– Edward Zwick
“There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive – in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.”
– Edward Zwick
“The ’80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn’t integrate their film and theater departments – so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn’t talk to the actors.”
– Eric Stoltz
“We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.”
– Ethan Coen
“Art Depends on Luck and Talent.”
– Francis Ford Coppola
“There’s nothing creative about living within your means.”
– Francis Ford Coppola
“I believe that filmmaking – as, probably, is everything – is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you’ve got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.”
– Francis Ford Coppola
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