Filmmaking Quotes

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport. (Michael Keaton)
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy. View quote
Neil Jordan
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process. View quote
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Filmmaking can be a fine art. View quote
Terri Windling
You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking. View quote
Guy Ritchie
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change. View quote
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. View quote
Abel Ferrara
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared. (Andrzej Wajda)
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
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. View quote
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. View quote
Richard Donner
The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States. View quote
Brendan Fraser
I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project. View quote
Eva Green
If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope. View quote
Nikki Reed
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. View quote
Robert Duvall
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking. (Darren Aronofsky)
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium. View quote
Daryl Hannah
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. View quote
Renny Harlin
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. View quote
Alex O'Loughlin