“Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.” InformationEmotionalMaterialsEssenceImpactFilmmakingDocumentariesManipulateDelivering Author:Richard Ray Perez
“When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension.” PeopleStillsFilmMovingNationsProcessActingStageEmotionalKingsSceneOriginalsCriminalsBridgesFeaturesDimensionsSundaySignificanceFilmmakingBloodyDrsReactingHumbling Author:David Oyelowo
“Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.” EndsEmotionalBalanceTiesThe End Of The DayFilmmaking Author:Arjun Kapoor
“'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly three hours long and with no star power - was an outreach to a different and more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there was also a new audience that weren't empathetic or sympathetic to the people we were portraying. They would never watch a film about inner city families, but they watched 'Hoop Dreams.'” PeopleLongImportantDifferentDreamFilmHoursPowerfulAudienceStruggleEmotionalSceneFilmmakingSympatheticEmpatheticOutreach Author:Gordon Quinn
“At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking photographs at the same time, and architecture, though it had the design element, it didn't have the narrative, emotional element that I was looking to do. I ended up painting for a while. I was dancing around it, and I realized that all these different interests came together in filmmaking.” DifferentTogetherInterestDesignEmotionalPaintingDancingPhotographArchitectureI RealizedFilmmaking Author:Neil Burger