Filmmaking Quotes

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

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.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

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.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

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.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

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

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

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.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

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.

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

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

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.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

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.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.