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“The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.”

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Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.”

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Author:Matthew Fox

“We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.”

“Pain is temporary, film is forever.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.”

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Author:Charlotte Rampling

“I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.”

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Author:Josh Lucas

“Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.”

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Author:James Franco

“I view filmmaking as a director's medium.”

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Author:James Franco

“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.”

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Author:Art Alexakis

“It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.”

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Author:Jehane Noujaim

“In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.”

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Author:Irvin Kershner

“I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.”

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Author:Seth Gordon

“I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.”

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Author:Dileep Rao

“I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.”

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Author:Richard Donner

“When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.”

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Author:Lauren Greenfield

“Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.”

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Author:Victor Salva

“I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.”

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Author:Matthew Vaughn

“When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.”

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Author:David Cronenberg

“People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.”

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Author:Robert Greenwald

“I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.”

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Author:Sam Mendes

“A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.”

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Book:This is Orson Welles

Source: This is Orson Welles

“I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance. I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie Johnson, Ward Kimball, all these great animators, and just ask them all these questions about how they did certain things, what their trials and errors were, the ups and downs.”

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Author:Andreas Deja

“You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.”

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Author:David Ayer

“Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.”

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Author:Michael Keaton

“What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.”

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Author:Simon Beaufoy

“A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.”

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Author:Brit Marling

“When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.”

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Author:Arjun Rampal

“I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.”

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Author:David Ayer

“Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.”

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Author:J. J. Abrams

“In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.”

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Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

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Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”

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Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.”

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Author:Brendan Fraser

“I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.”

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Author:Keenen Ivory Wayans

“It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.”

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Author:Jose Padilha

“Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vérité filmmaking to more archival."”

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Author:Liz Garbus

“The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.”

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Author:Cary Fukunaga

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