“A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.” Quote by Steven Soderbergh
“You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.” PeopleKnowsRealStoriesFilmEasyInspiringCuttingFilmmakerMovieGrammarMtvMovie Director Author:Peter Bogdanovich
“Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.” IfsWantFeelsTryingImportantDifferentEnoughFeelingsActorsInspiringComfortableStressImportant ThingsFilmmakerTensionMovieDifferent ThingsLimbs Author:Peter Farrelly
“Casting is 65 percent of directing.” InspiringPercentFilmmakerMovieCasting Author:John Frankenheimer
“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.” ShouldCharacterEyeActionInspiringStyleMovementSceneScriptsDialogueFilmmakerMovieMovie Director Author:Samuel Fuller
“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!” MovingInspiringDirectorsFunctionChiefsFilmmakerMovieEmsStoryteller Author:Howard Hawks
“I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.” WayTryingInspiringProduceFruitBest WayFilmmakerMovieCollaborationBananasCherriesNavigators Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.” ThinkingFilmInspiringTeachFilmmakerMovieInnate Author:Richard Linklater
“I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.” BelieveImaginationProjectsManagementPlanningFilmmakerAlways Believe Author:Trevor Nunn
“A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.” MatterInspiringOpinionStyleParticularExpressionCamerasFilmmakerFancyMovieAccurateAngleFootworkCamera Angles Author:Karel Reisz
“It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.” LastsNextInspiringFilmmakerMovieFormulas Author:Alan Rudolph