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“When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.”

Inspiring Levels Competition Studios Filmmaker Movie Parody

Author:Bill Paxton

“Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.”

Inspiring Inspired Narrative Filmmaker Movie Filmmaking Documentaries

Author:Griffin Dunne

“Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.”

Inspiring Safe Edges Filmmaker Movie

Author:John Updike

“I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.”

Thinking Kind Opportunity Inspiring Students Privilege Filmmaker Movie Perpetual

Author:Edward Zwick

“Self-plagiarism is style.”

Self Inspiring Style Filmmaker Movie Plagiarism

Book:Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews

“A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.”

Inspiring Vision Evolve Filmmaker Movie

Author:Alan Parker

“If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.”

Ifs Want Trying Inspiring Messages Unions Western Filmmaker Movie

Author:Frank Capra

“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

Thinking Believe Today Inspiring Audience Seeing Comfortable Hearing Familiar Filmmaker Movie Shakes

Author:Christopher Nolan

“A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.”

Inspiring Break Pieces Directors Filmmaker Movie Film Directors Movie Director Film Directing Directing Film

Author:Jean Renoir

“I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.”

People Knows Trying Hard Enough Inspiring Millions Filmmaker Movie

Author:John Huston

“If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.”

People Ifs Different Inspiring Millions Filmmaker Movie

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“The end of a picture is always an end of a life.”

Ends Inspiring Filmmaker Movie

Author:Sam Peckinpah

“A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.”

Turns Inspiring Millions Events Cost Profit Filmmaker Movie

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.”

People Knows Real Stories Film Easy Inspiring Cutting Filmmaker Movie Grammar Mtv Movie Director

Author:Peter Bogdanovich

“Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.”

Ifs Want Feels Trying Important Different Enough Feelings Actors Inspiring Comfortable Stress Important Things Filmmaker Tension Movie Different Things Limbs

Author:Peter Farrelly

“Casting is 65 percent of directing.”

Inspiring Percent Filmmaker Movie Casting

Author:John Frankenheimer

“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”

Should Character Eye Action Inspiring Style Movement Scene Scripts Dialogue Filmmaker Movie Movie Director

Author:Samuel Fuller

“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!”

Moving Inspiring Directors Function Chiefs Filmmaker Movie Ems Storyteller

Author:Howard Hawks

“I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.”

Way Trying Inspiring Produce Fruit Best Way Filmmaker Movie Collaboration Bananas Cherries Navigators

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.”

Thinking Film Inspiring Teach Filmmaker Movie Innate

Author:Richard Linklater

“A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.”

Matter Inspiring Opinion Style Particular Expression Cameras Filmmaker Fancy Movie Accurate Angle Footwork Camera Angles

Author:Karel Reisz

“It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.”

Lasts Next Inspiring Filmmaker Movie Formulas

Author:Alan Rudolph

“A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.”

Moments Stories Feelings Together Actors Struggle Scene Creating Tone Movie Strings

Author:Louis C. K.

“The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.”

People Giving Actors Millions Give Me Movie

Author:Louis C. K.

“The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.”

Honest Tea Movie Bad Movies Honest Tea

Author:Elvis Presley

“The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.”

World Actors Creativity Creative Media Connections Structure Movie Sheer Sequence Speeding Configuration Speeding Up

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.”

Film Fans Dad Performances My Dad Affair Movie Uncles Love Affair

Author:Mel Torme

“The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?”

People Stills Dream Might Eye Together Actors Individual Lost Dark Groups Habit Thousand Authority Cinema Movie Charm Charisma Hypnotic

Book:I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon

Source: I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon

“One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.”

Thinking Men Different Real Women Fantasy Learning Seeing Directors Perception Men And Women Cinema Filmmaker Movie Portraying Portrayal Real Women Women Right

Book:Jane Campion: Interviews

Source: Jane Campion: Interviews

“When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.”

Knows Mean Reason Stories Moving Shots Standing Cameras Edges Storytelling Movie Roof Cinematography Cranes Standing On The Edge

Author:Roger Deakins

“I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.”

Trying Actors Goal Numbers Acting Break Records Directors Beats Cinema Movie Frustration Frustrated Hitchcock Cameos

Author:Stan Lee

“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”

Source: Sunset Boulevard

“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”

“And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.”

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Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.”

People Art Actors Interest Art Is Mediums Movie

Author:Irving Thalberg

“When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.”

Believe Funny Young Three I Believe Directors Humorous Producers Cinema Filmmaker Movie Marxism Three Things Screenwriters Dynamite Just Believe Cinematography

Author:Sergio Leone

“Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.”

“I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.”

Doe Actors Movie Gambling Headache

Author:Bette Davis

“Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.”

“If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.”

Ifs Moral Crime Ought Movie Decay Moral Decay

Author:Jack Valenti

“These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.”

Kids School High School Movie Graduates Harvard

Author:Barry Sonnenfeld

“The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part”

Lying Actors Shooting Movie Deceit Editing

Author:Paul Hirsch

“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!”

Knows Names Fiction Lord Brother Anger Lays Fingers Strikes Thee My Brother Poison Movie Vengeance Furious Pulp Greatest Movie Righteous Man Ak 47 Quoting Movies Ezekiel Reservoir Dogs

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.”

Actors Middle Shots Movie Flats Filmmaking Minors Catastrophe New Day Delta Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Jeri Ryan

“I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.”

Thinking Way Violence Movie

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.”

Lord Fantasy Standards Rings Movie Movie Sets

Author:Sarah Zettel

“I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.”

Writing Ideas Different Film Down And Movie Different Ideas

Author:Obie Trice

“It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.”

Thinking Knows Ends Actors Know How Plans Products Educated Not Sure Movie Filmmaking Plan B

Author:John Dykstra

“Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.”

Years Wells Past Interesting Levels Example Summer Analysis Movie Phenomenon Continuing Marketplace Profile High Profile Top 10

Author:Peter Bart

“For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made”

Years Made Effects Eight Movie

Author:Guillermo del Toro

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