Filmmaking Quotes

"To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script."

Alfred Hitchcock

"The most personal is the most creative."

Martin Scorsese

"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."

Stanley Kubrick

"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right."

Woody Allen

"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."

Robert Altman

"I am my films."

Werner Herzog

"Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."

Jean Cocteau

"The task I'm trying to achieve is above all to make you see."

D. W. Griffith

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

Orson Welles