Film Making Quotes
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There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.
— Paul Newman
There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.
— Kieran Bew
I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.
— Richard King
Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
— Yahoo Serious
You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.
— John Waters
The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.
— Woody Allen
A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
— Abbas Kiarostami
For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.
— Ryan Coogler
I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.
— Saffron Burrows
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
— Richard Linklater
Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.'
— Rebecca Pidgeon
Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.
— Avi Lewis
Take my wife ... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.
— Les Dawson
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
— Darren Aronofsky
One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
— Haruki Murakami
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.
— Clint Eastwood
We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.
— Michelle Yeoh
Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.
— Robert Kane Pappas
Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.
— Anupama Chopra
The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
— Allan Sekula
I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
— Bruce LaBruce
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.
— Guy Pearce
I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.
— William Monahan
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
— Ira Sachs
Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.
— Deniz Gamze Erguven
My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things can go wrong.
— Richard Rossi
I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.
— Ben Barnes
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
— Andrew Tudor
I was still making movies so it wasnt as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldnt find distributors.
— Linda Fiorentino
I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.
— Pawel Pawlikowski
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.
— Danny Boyle
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
— Neil Jordan
It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.
— Jake Abel
Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.
— Matthew Goode
After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.
— John Carney
Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
— Albert Brooks
Whatever's inside making me what I am, it's like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
— James Dean
I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
— Ryan Phillippe
There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
— William Friedkin
If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
— Andy Samberg
I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.
— Lloyd Kaufman
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
— Nick Nolte
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western
— Ang Lee
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
— Carlo Ponti
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
— Charlton Heston
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
— Alan Lightman
I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.
— Duncan Jones
I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.
— Shahrukh Khan
Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.
— Crispian Mills
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
— Ken Adam
The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
— Steven Spielberg
Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.
— Ricky Gervais
To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
— Abdellatif Kechiche
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
— Guy Ritchie
Just as making an omelette & breaking eggs you can't make a horror film without breaking a few heads!
— Kensington Gore
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
— George Lucas
I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
— Kate Fleetwood
It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.
— Cameron Diaz
A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.
— Ryan Phillippe
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.
— Francois Truffaut
The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.
— Clive James
To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman
— Deepa Mehta
There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.
— Henry Jackman
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
— Jim Coleman
Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.
— Mel Brooks
I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
— Kathryn Bigelow
My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
— Aaron Paul
When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!
— Anurag Kashyap
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.
— Robert Stromberg
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
— Peter Jackson
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
— Kate Bush
Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
— Cameron Crowe
I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.
— Daniel Radcliffe
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
— Richard Linklater
I dare make those comparisons, but we often said 'the making of' would be as interesting if not more interesting than the film.
— Brad Pitt
I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school.
— Zach Braff
I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.
— Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.
— Mike Birbiglia
When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
— Salman Rushdie