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“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.”

“In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.”

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Author:George Lucas

“I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.”

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Author:James McAvoy

“I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.”

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Author:Robert Morgan

“I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.”

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Author:Roman Polanski

“The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.”

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Author:Eli Roth

“I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.”

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Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.”

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Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.”

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Author:Ed Wood

“I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.”

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Author:Neill Blomkamp

“I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”

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Author:Louise Brooks

“Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

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Author:John Cassavetes

“It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.”

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Book:James Cameron: Interviews

Source: James Cameron: Interviews

“Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.”

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Author:Jane Campion

“Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.”

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Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.”

“Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.”

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Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

“I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

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