#filmmaking

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film. ↗

— Alain Resnais

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I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#come #experimental #filmmaking #good #how

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#flying #god #his #howard #howard hughes

The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#camera #colleges #departments #directors #film

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

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I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. ↗

— Seth Gordon

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The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#arc #building #character #filmmaking #going

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#different #different opinions #different points #ethics #filmmaking

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person. ↗

— Ang Lee

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