“You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.” IfsKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsKindSaidFilmStrongSoundHoursFourSpecialCamerasWhat You WantVideoFilmmakerFilmmakingChipsSomething SpecialCelluloid Author:Martin Scorsese
“Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.” TryingFilmCamerasJustifyDiariesNotebookMonologues Book:Le Petit soldat: screenplay Source: Le Petit soldat: screenplay
“In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.” WantedFilmNamesRolesNew YorkLateShotsCamerasBackgroundsThirtySeventiesEightyWoodyScorseseWoody Allen Movie Author:Tobin Bell
“I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.” PeopleKnowsLittlesRealFilmStarsBitsFrontsLittle BitCamerasAccidentsAspirationWrestlingFilm StarsPro Wrestling Author:Roddy Piper
“I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project. The project that influenced me the most is this cooking show I do online. I film it all myself, and I think making so many of those gave me the confidence that all I need is a camera, and I could go and do an interview. The freedom to be a filmmaker - you just need a camera.” ThinkingNeedsLongShowsFilmPassionEnergyCrazySubjectsAmountProjectsCamerasCookingFilmmakerInterviewsOnlineLove MakingCooking Shows Author:Tamra Davis
“My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.” FilmActingCareersCamerasSuitsDisguise Author:Ian Mckellen
“I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how to hold a camera, how to use a Dx3 menu. You can learn that in five minutes from somebody that doesn't even know anything. But what do you know if you haven't read anything - studied art and studied literature - what do you have to contribute?” IfsThinkingKnowsArtUseKidsSchoolFilmLiteratureKnow HowFiveMinutesHavensCamerasDo You KnowFive MinutesCurriculumMentoringMenusFilm School Author:Rob Nilsson
“I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are. I laugh after every take just out of the discomfort I feel that I'm even on film. It's an awkward thing for me to be doing. Once we get going, it's always fine, and as we're shooting, I'm never thinking about it. I'd say that all my time in front of the camera is equally uncomfortable for me.” ThinkingFeelsSeemsFilmActorsLaughingFrontsFineComfortableCamerasShootingUncomfortableMy TimeAwkwardDiscomfortDorky Author:Seth Rogen
“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.” ThinkingFeelsMeanMomentsFilmCan DoFocusStageLike YouIntegrityTheaterCamerasIntentionExtraordinaryDareScreensCinemaIntensityTheatricalViewpointsCan Do SomethingExtraordinary Moments Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.” PeopleThinkingMadeHomeFilmUsedCamerasPicnics Author:D. A. Pennebaker
“I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.” FilmInterestingAdventurePicksCameras Author:D. A. Pennebaker
“The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.” PeopleIfsLittlesMadeStoriesShowsFilmStuffMistakeCamerasScriptsProducersLittle ThingsLocationWardrobeLabsConcentratingBiggest Mistake Author:Shane Carruth
“When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.” KnowsWantFilmSpeakFrontsSceneCamerasDialogueWant Me Author:Jackie Chan
“Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.” HardFilmFeltStageFrontsComfortableCamerasActresses Author:Blythe Danner
“I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.” ThinkingSchoolFilmCamerasAssistantsFilm SchoolTrainees Author:Agnes Varda
“I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera.” IfsThinkingStillsMatterFilmCamerasDigitalDigital Cameras Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I like the film camera better because the film is still one hundred times better than any digital image at the moment. So, there are certain movies that you can't really do digitally.” StillsMomentsFilmCertainHundredCamerasDigital Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.” SchoolFilmLeftCompanyDirectorsCamerasIncludingScreensEquipmentTelephonesFilm DirectorsProjectors Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldFilmActorsActingCamerasMethodBunchNonsenseRollingFilm Acting Author:Natalie Portman
“I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.” WayWantHandsSchoolFilmMovingBitsWhitePiecesTeachingFieldsKeysDirectorsDirectLet MeCamerasDepthSizeFactorsLensesLightingFilm SchoolBits And PiecesDepth Of Field Author:Columbus Short
“If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.” IfsWayFilmLove IsBehindsLordCamerasIf I CouldLiving My Life Author:Al Green
“One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.” YearsFilmWalksHalfSixComfortableCamerasGratefulBest ThingsHalf A YearCreeksFilm Set Author:Michelle Williams
“With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.” WorldFilmActorsCan DoViewsActingWrittenToolsCamerasPoint Of ViewComparisonCrudeParagraphSubjectivityGood Acting Author:William Boyd
“There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.” IdeasSometimesFilmLanguagePositionCamerasUglyAngleSpectacularUnfamiliar Author:Steve McQueen
“I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.” ThinkingWayFilmMovingTermColorCamerasDepthAppealsOld Fashioned Author:Ashley Greene
“I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.” StillsFilmPhotographyCamerasDepartmentNutsFilm Set Author:Eric Bana
“I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.” LittlesArtMadeHelpingFilmBoysWeekCollegeBrotherBedSixSummerCamerasScriptsMy BrotherHelp MeBicycle Author:Ridley Scott
“I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.” PeopleArtMomentsDreamFilmSidesBehindsAliveFineCamerasExperimentsDigitalDreams Come TrueGalleryFine ArtsArt Galleries Author:Russell James
“Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate.” SelfWholeFilmCultureKnowingGenerationsGrewGrew UpCamerasVideoDietsFilmmakerWorking ItPopular CultureVideo Cameras Author:Simon Pegg
“At some level, you've got to have the ability to - especially in film and in front of the camera, you got to have the ability to drop into character and close off the entire crew and the camera and everything else.” CharacterFilmAbilityLevelsFrontsCamerasCrew Author:Denis Leary
“I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.” WritingKindDoneWholeSchoolFilmUsedStuffTrainingShotsCamerasWhole LifeVideoGet UpVideo Cameras Author:Noah Baumbach
“Film, television, and working with a camera is such an intimate art form that if a camera is right on you, and I've got your face filling the screen, you have to be real. If you do anything that is fake, you're not going to get away with it, because the camera is right there, and the story is being told in a very real way.” IfsWayArtRealStoriesFilmFacesFormTelevisionCamerasScreensFakeIntimateGet AwayYour FaceBeing RealFilling Author:Paul Feig
“There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.” ThinkingYearsUseFilmWifeColorPaperCamerasBlindMy WifePlentyGoing OutManufacturing Author:William Eggleston
“If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Part of the freedom in directing, for me, is that I'm also the camera operator. That's the place where things are less rigid, where I can adjust as I go along.” IfsGivingWellsI CanFilmWrittenDirectorsCamerasCleverWell WrittenOperatorsVery Clever Author:Patrice Leconte
“What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.” PeopleFactsHappensFilmRichCamerasRich PeopleTheatricalOpulence Author:Tilda Swinton
“Obviously, my stuff has been more in the comedy realm, and I really believe that if I'm laughing behind the camera, then I think the film will be funnier.” IfsThinkingBelieveHas BeensFilmStuffBehindsLaughingComedyCamerasRealms Author:Will Packer
“Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.” StillsDifferentCharacterAbleFilmTalkingTelevisionTheaterCamerasFoundationInstinctIntimateBasicsGroundingBallgame Author:Rose Leslie
“I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that could achieve the look that I wanted for this film. I wanted it to be dirty, and 16mm provides all of that with the look and the grain. That's what I worked for, and that's what I wanted, and that's how I'd seen the movie in my mind.” MindLooksWould BeWantedFilmGuyAchieveCamerasDirtyGrainScreenplays Author:Deon Taylor
“I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.” WayArtDoneMightFilmStuffBehindsHellModernCoupleHonorDramaHorrorSkillsDegreesCamerasTradeUniversityTheatreLocalsVideoFilmmakerInstantHorror FilmAlberta Author:Karen Walton
“You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.” NeedsMaySelfFilmActorsFictionResourcesCamerasScriptsCrewDocumentariesPerpetuating Author:Thom Powers
“With comedy, you get an immediate response. I'm the whole kit and the kaboodle. I am the whole thing and can steer the whole situation how I want to. With film, you are basically in one area. Comedy is straight to it and the film is heavily shaped the camera and editing, so it's different.” WantDifferentWholeFilmSituationComedyAreasCamerasResponseEditingSteers Author:Joe Torry
“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.” WayWantWritingSaidStoriesWantedFilmGamesSportsClearSawsViolenceFootballDramaOne DaySolutionsCamerasScriptsFinishedViolentHeySiblingRivalrySibling RivalrySports MovieFunny GameViolent Films Author:Carlos Cuaron
“I don't want the people I'm with on this journey to feel like I'm filming them all the time. I don't want them to constantly feel as though they're being watched. So I will have the camera ready at all times, but I will only film when something is really worth filming. Those are the moments when the person being filmed is usually not aware of it.” PeopleWantFeelsPersonsMomentsFilmJourneyReadyCamerasAll Time Author:Kim Longinotto
“Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.” HomeFilmPicksCamerasVideoVideo Cameras Author:James Cameron
“I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.” KnowsSoulUseFilmUsedWaitingHoursSittingCamerasPlanesVisualsBellsStoppingPrintedMaking TimeRemote Control Author:Margaret Bourke-White
“You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.” WantLittlesBigsFilmBitsTermQualityColorLittle BitCamerasSuperiorsDigitalContrastFormatNuanceHighlightsSharpness Author:Michel Gondry
“Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part in telling the story as well, like what I really believe in with all the films I make.” WantBelieveWellsImportantStoriesBigsFilmDesignMovementAspectCameras Author:James Wan
“I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."” IfsWantGivingPlayFilmGuyForgetClearGive MeCamerasGlassesBusinessmanBad GuysAsian Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.” PeopleWantMeanLongArtFilmHateDiesDealsPayEmotionMistakeStruggleMinutesCamerasWestNosesThrownPrimitiveFascinationLove HateLooking DownSudden DeathOld West Author:John Wayne
“I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.” FilmLove IsBehindsTalkingFrontsDirectorsCamerasRats Author:Jim Caviezel