Filmmaking Quotes

"I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships."

"I'm not making films just to be bold."

"I remind audiences that I'm in the fortunate position to make a film about my family."

"You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk."

"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."

"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."

"The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire."

"To make a good film is an art. Gender is irrelevant when it comes to craft of filmmaking."

"Every time you make a film you want to put something out there and that's important to me."

"I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish."

"You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'"

"When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon."

"The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes."

“I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.”

“Lighting is everything. It creates mood and has an emotional effect on you.”

"I dream for a living."

Steven Spielberg

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

Martin Scorsese

"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed."

Stanley Kubrick

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

Jean-Luc Godard

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."

Alfred Hitchcock

"The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not the think of it."

Stanley Kubrick

"With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film."

Akira Kurosawa

"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone."

Frank Capra

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

Robert Bresson

"My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don't follow trends. Start them!"

Frank Capra