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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

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite. — Robert Greene

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

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time. — Brie Larson

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

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane. — Dito Montiel

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images. — Asif Kapadia

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 something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do. — Peter Mullan

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

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds. — Alex Gibney

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

I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know. — J. D. Souther

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

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive. — Josh Lucas

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

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life. — Henry Selick

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

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos. — Bill Vaughan

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

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree. — Julia Leigh

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

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. — Peter Jackson

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

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring. — Louis Leterrier

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

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things. — Taika Waititi

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

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. — Frank Capra

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking. — Nicolas Cage

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

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking. — Jon Bernthal

End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island — C.B. Murphy

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way. — Jeff Bridges

Filmmaking can be a fine art. — Terri Windling

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art. — Signe Baumane

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 got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious. — Ira Sachs

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather. — Hugh Grant

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it. — Wim Wenders

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