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.
Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.
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...
i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.
If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.
Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.
If you want to make art, go get a job at the Loov-rah.
The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.
A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands on the equipment and getting it to do things for them. It's not...
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European sty...
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.
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.
In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves th...