THE BEST QUOTES ABOUT FILMMAKING
It’s great to be inspired by other people who are doing what we’re doing. Or doing what we want to do. Maybe you’re already make films, or perhaps it’s a dream you’ve been holding for a while.
Every time I go to a movie, it’s magic, no matter what the movie’s about.
– Steven Spielberg
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
We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
– Walt Disney
A film is the expression of a unique vision – the more personal it is, therefore, the more it approaches the status of a work of art. Which means it will stand the test of time longer.
– Martin Scorsese
Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.
– Alejandro Gonzalez
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.
– Jean-Luc Godard
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.
– Quentin Tarantino
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable to others.
– Orson Welles
Art depends on luck and talent.
– Francis Ford Coppola
The older get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them special effects…but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story.
– Steven Spielberg
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
– J.J. Abrams
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
– Orson Welles
To be a Filmmaker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
– Danny Boyle
All You need for is movie is: a gun and a girl.
– Jean-Luc Godard
If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
– Stanley Kubrick
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
– Charlie Chaplin
If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. “You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.
– George Lucas
I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but somebody has to.
– David Fincher
Film is a battleground.
– Sam Fuller
There’s an electrical thing about movies.
– Oliver Stone
I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
– Darren Aronofsky
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
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
– Werner Herzog
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
– Alfred Hitchcock
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
– Akira Kurosawa
I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there’s got to be a captain.
– Ridley Scott
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
– Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody’s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
– Cameron Crowe
Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
– Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
– Steven Spielberg
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
– Roman Polanski
When I make movies, I’m the audience.
– Martin Scorsese
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
– Quentin Tarantino
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker.
– Robert Wise
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
– Edward Zwick
You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it!
– Steven Spielberg
A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
– Alan Parker
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
– Peter Jackson
Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.
– Gaspar Noe
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
– Orson Welles
People will say, « There are a million ways to shoot a scene », but I don’t think so. I think there’re two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.
– David Fincher
I steal from every movie ever made.
– Quentin Tarantino
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
– Ted Kotcheff
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
– Steven Spielber
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
– Werner Herzog
I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
– Charlie Chaplin
Pain is temporary, film is forever.
– John Milius
When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it.
– Katherine Howe
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
– Frank Capra
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
– Christopher McQuarrie
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences – is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.
– George Lucas
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
– Alfred Hitchcock
The good ideas will survive.
– Quentin Tarantino
Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.
– Quentin Tarantino
I always want the audience to outguess me, and then I doublecross them.
– Buster Keaton
I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.
– Emir Kusturica
A movie is a little like a question, and when you make it, that’s when you get the answer.
– Francis Ford Coppola
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
– Robert Altman
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
– Orson Welles
Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.
– Doug Liman
