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The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
— Peter Jackson
It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.
— Shia Labeouf
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
— Abel Ferrara
At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.
— Nicholas Ozeki
I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.
— Lina Wertmuller
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
— Fede Alvarez
The filmmaking process taught me that I need to be authentic - in my scripts and in real life.
— John Grooters
A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.
— Asif Kapadia
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
— Baz Luhrmann
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read ... if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
— Werner Herzog
The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.
— Mike Nichols
If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.
— Gary Rydstrom
Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.
— Nicholas Ozeki
The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
— Alex O'Loughlin
Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.
— Brad Pitt
Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
— Barbara Kopple
Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.
— Madonna Ciccone
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
— Gale Anne Hurd
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
— Alexander Payne
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.
— Reginald Hudlin
Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
— M. Night Shyamalan
There are no rules in filmmaking
— Frank Capra
I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
— Dermot Mulroney
My god is narrative filmmaking.
— Darren Aronofsky
I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.
— Gena Rowlands
One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.
— Rick Heinrichs
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
There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.
— Gina Prince-Bythewood
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
— William Goldman
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
— Jamie Bell
If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.
— Dawn Garcia
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
— Gus Van Sant
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
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
— Yahoo Serious
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
— Ted Kotcheff
I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.
— David Shapiro
As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!
— Gerard De Marigny
Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
— John Cassavetes
I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.
— David Ayer
I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
— Fede Alvarez
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
— Christophe Agou
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
— Christopher Nolan
For me, I see filmmaking as art.
— Emily Browning
In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.
— Jim Sturgess
Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.
— Rick Heinrichs
I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.
— Charlize Theron
A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.
— Lenny Abrahamson
I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically.
— Darius Khondji
Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante
But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
— Minnie Driver
Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
— Terry Gilliam
There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.
— Stanley Tucci
Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
— Kim Ji-woon
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
— Griffin Dunne
End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island
— C.B. Murphy
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
— Terri Windling
The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.
— Jonathan Heatt
I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.
— Michael Jai White
We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
— Roger Ebert
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
— Tony Kaye
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
— Seth Gordon
The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.
— Nandita Das
Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking.
— Yves Behar
The first rule of all filmmaking is that every scene should start at the last possible moment and end at the first possible moment.
— Austin Film Festival
It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
— K'naan
Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
— Michael Keaton
The best documentaries are independent. They don't exist to serve interests, philanthropic or otherwise.
— Nick Fraser
When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.
— Walter Dean Myers
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 view filmmaking as a director's medium.
— James Franco
I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.
— Kelly Reichardt
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
— Christopher Nolan
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
— Peter Greenaway
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
— Darren Aronofsky