Top Filmmaking Quotes

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In sh...

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and can...

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

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

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!

When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

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

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way....

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop...

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.