Interesting Film Quotes – Insightful Thoughts On Movies, Cinema, And More
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“Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.”
– Peter Jackson
“The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.”
– Peter Jackson
“If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.”
– Quentin Tarantino
“A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.”
– Renny Harlin
“First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it’s been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you’re going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it.”
– Richard Donner
“I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn’t think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.”
– Richard Donner
“It’s only been a couple of times in my life that I’ve really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.”
– Richard Donner
“The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.”
– Richard King
“I think maybe making films is something innate you can’t really teach to begin with.”
– Richard Linklater
“When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don’t want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.”
– Rick Moranis
“The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I’m not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.”
– Rick Moranis
“People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God’s sake, I’m not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I’m making a movie that people are going to look at.”
– Ridley Scott
“It’s all just one film to me. Just different chapters.”
– Robert Altman
“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”
– Robert Altman
“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”
– Robert Bresson
“Hollywood is still the Mecca for good or bad, but it isn’t the beginning or end for filmmaking.”
– Robert Duvall
“I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.”
– Robert Morgan
“My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker.”
– Robert Wise
“We don’t have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.”
– Roger Ebert
“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.”
– Roman Polanski
“One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.”
– Ron Howard
“What I always tell people is… Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car than not do it, find something else to do as a career and do filmmaking as a hobby. This industry is one of the hardest to break into and be successful. It takes a lot of passion and dedication for it to get anywhere…”
– Ryan Connolly
“Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven’t got enough money and enough time, so that’s always going to be an element in filmmaking.”
– Ryan Kwanten
“Film is a battleground.”
– Sam Fuller
“The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.”
– Sam Peckinpah
“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it’s all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”
– Samuel Fuller
“I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.”
– Seth Gordon
“I’ve learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven’t been allowed to engage in yet.”
– Shia LaBeouf
“A Lot of Times You Get Credit for Stuff in Your Movie You Didn’t Intend to Be There.”
– Spike Lee
“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
– Stanley Kubrick
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