Quotes About Film Techniques

#1. If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#2. I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

Julie Taymor

#3. When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#4. The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.

Howard Shore

#5. Passion is more developed than discovered.

Dan Miller

#6. Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

Gelett Burgess

#7. But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

Parminder Nagra

#8. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

Raymond Chandler

#9. So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Alain Resnais

#10. He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

William Nicholson

#11. The sun does not rise when you need it most. You rise instead.

Melissa Jennings

#12. If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Joyce Meyer

#13. Women have all the power because women have all the vaginas.

Dave Attell

#14. Invest in learning and discovering new filmmaking techniques is the next keystone to success. Film is changing rapidly right now. The last big change was the introduction of sound. This time around it is movies on th internet and mobile telephones.

Elliot Grove

#15. In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.

Mod Sun

#16. It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

Dallin H. Oaks

#17. I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

Akira Kurosawa

#18. Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few in their home, to their fledging church, or to the homeless under a bridge in their city. Nothing is meager or insignificant about that.

Priscilla Shirer

#19. The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

John Corigliano

#20. I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

Florence Welch