Top 32 Life Filmmaking Quotes
#1. Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
Lars Von Trier
#2. This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?
John Green
#3. The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
Kapil Sharma
#4. With a camera, a microphone, and sufficient cash, you, too, can craft your own version of the world and emblazon it with a premium of fear over facts. (Be warned though: Paranoid schizophrenia makes for compelling film, but it's no way of life.)
David T. Hardy
#5. Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.
Frederick Wiseman
#6. With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.
Lucy Walker
#7. Try to imagine what the rising generation could become if these five righteous patterns were practiced consistently in every home. Our young people could be like Helaman's army: invincible (see Alma 57:25
26).
Larry R. Lawrence
#8. Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.
Henry Selick
#9. The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
Rick Moranis
#10. The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.
Mylo Carbia
#11. My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Robert Bresson
#12. For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
Akira Kurosawa
#13. When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.
Robert Rodriguez
#14. The filmmaking process taught me that I need to be authentic - in my scripts and in real life.
John Grooters
#15. When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.
Elaine Stritch
#16. I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.
Abbas Kiarostami
#17. i Create. I don't "Need".
Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism.
Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.
Jonathan Heatt
#18. Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.
Nicolas Cage
#19. I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.
Harrison Ford
#20. 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.
Richard Donner
#21. Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
Peter Landesman
#22. 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
#23. Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.
Angie-Marie Delsante
#24. I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.
Lupita Nyong'o
#25. I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting' ... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
Baltasar Kormakur
#26. We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.
Nick Offerman
#27. I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.
Matthew Vaughn
#28. Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.
Morten Tyldum
#29. Until that night, she'd categorized multiple orgasms with unicorns, the Holy Grail, and free parking.
Amanda Usen
#30. For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.
Mark Webber
#32. Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
Darlene Craviotto
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