“The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.” KnowsFilmFinalsGreat ThingsShootingComing BackPremieres Author:Matthew Lewis
“By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.” KnowsFirstsFilmPsychologyWeekDirectorsShootingHeadings Author:Jodie Foster
“Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.” LittlesFilmBitsRoomsGoneTakenLittle BitFinishedShootingTouchedEditing Author:Ridley Scott
“I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.” NeedsSometimesFilmFightingEnergyHeavenTvsSceneIntenseShootingGuerrillasGuerrilla Warfare Author:Karl Urban
“When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.” KnowsMadeFilmRealizingBloodCriticsShooting Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.” MenYearsMadeSelfWholeRunningFilmGuyCitiesBrotherVictimShootingSatChasingBricksDrawersBack In TimeShort FilmsFuture Self Author:Rian Johnson
“Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.” WritingWellsDifferentFilmThreeCoursesProcessWrittenShootingThree TimesEdits Author:Stephen Daldry
“One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.” FilmLevelsPracticalsShootingUnits Author:Duncan Jones
“It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.” KnowsYearsDifferentFilmHouseParentBlackShotsShootingRoofEditingJacketsLeatherLeather Jackets Author:John Waters
“The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in Husbands and Wives - is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, nervous New York film, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.” IfsWayKindFilmStylePerformancesShootingEditingNeuroticFast Paced Author:Woody Allen
“Making movies has not only been an incredibly collaborative process but there's three big parts: pre-production, shooting itself and then post-production, which leads into marketing. And if you're passionate about the movie and you believe in it, and it would make sense that you are having done it, then you want to get out and promote it. It makes it a lot easier when the film is good and people are enjoying it.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveDoneBigsFilmThreeProcessEnjoyEasierMarketingPassionateProductionsPostsShootingMake SensePost Production Author:Dwayne Johnson
“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.” GivingWellsFactsStoriesSeemsActionFilmStuffForgetViolenceCarCoupleSceneEssentialsHollywoodGive MeStructureShootingBroadsFadsAction Films Author:Clint Eastwood
“I do like working on independent films where it is a smaller budget and less pressure. The pace is also quicker than that of a big budget film. You are shooting at a fairly fast pace. Sitting around for three or four days can be quite draining. So I guess in terms of film or television, I would say filming an independent feature.” BigsFilmThreeTermFourTelevisionSittingPressureIndependentShootingBudgetsFeaturesPaceSitting AroundIndependent FilmDraining Author:Colm Meaney
“When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it's those eyes that mean so much to me.” KnowsMeanImportantUseEyeFilmActorsHugeShootingFeaturesFilmmakerPerformersCastingGreat Actors Author:Peter Jackson
“In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.” FilmPreparationShootingRehearsalFilm Set Author:Ben Whishaw
“When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.” LittlesMadeRealFilmPoorRoundsLondonHillsShootingDocumentariesSlumsNotting Hill Author:David Suchet
“If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.” IfsThinkingLastsFilmPoliticalShootingParisIdeologicalTango Author:Bernardo Bertolucci