#filmmaking

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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To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

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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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I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

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

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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking. ↗

— Rick Moranis

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

— Christopher Nolan

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All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. ↗

— Sidney Lumet

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To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being. ↗