“You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.” KnowsWayShouldTryingRealMightLastsFilmBeliefBe GoodFilmmakerPersonal Beliefs Author:David O. Russell
“I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with some of my favourite films that might relate to this [The Assassination of Jesse James] film in terms of cadence like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or McCabe & Mrs Miller or Days of Heaven. I found them 10 to 20 years after they were made.” YearsMadeMightKidsFilmFoundBeliefHeavenTermWeekOpeningRelateFavouriteAssassinationGood FilmsCadence Author:Brad Pitt
“There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.” IfsWellsFilmBeliefTermRiskMountainCommitmentAbsolutesDevotionClimbsClimbingFilmmakingParallelsClimbing Mountain Author:Jimmy Chin
“It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.” IfsThinkingWantMayHardFilmPoliticalBeliefGivenAudienceMessages Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“It's really interesting for me as a filmmaker to go back and look at the films I've made and see where I was at that point in my life and also where my ideals were and the beliefs that I had and look at the ways I've grown and evolved and apply that to the next thing.” WayLooksMadeFilmNextBeliefInterestingIdealsFilmmakerReally Interesting Author:Mark Webber
“All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!” FilmBeliefHeroPersonal ExperiencesMy HeroSpokespeople Author:Michel Ocelot
“The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.” PeopleBelieveImportantEnoughWholeFilmBeliefChallenges Author:Josephine Decker
“I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST.” IfsKnowsLastsFilmCertainThreeBeliefLostPowerfulMoralConscienceWeakAll TimeArtisticRelaxEntertainingCommandmentsJungleStandpoint Author:Ingmar Bergman