Quotes of: Filmmaking Keyword

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

K'naan

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

Michel Hazanavicius

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Matthew McConaughey

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Nicholas Jarecki

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

Donnie Yen

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

Peter Guber

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

Max von Sydow

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 don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Ang Lee

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

Baz Luhrmann

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

David Cronenberg

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

Joel Silver

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

Tim Robbins

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Bryan Singer

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

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.

Jodie Foster

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

Edward Zwick

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

Frank Capra

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

Jeff Bridges