#filmmaking

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

— Jean-Luc Godard

#filmmaking #movies #movies

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

— Sidney Lumet

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I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#era #favorite #feel #filmmaking #great

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#art #dance #film #filmmaking #hip-hop

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me. ↗

— Lake Bell

#brain #brain surgery #enjoyable #experience #filmmaking

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes. ↗

— Michael Biehn

#blocking #casting #decisions #elements #experience

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman. ↗

— Richard Donner

#bros #disappointed #enough #film #filmmaking

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#beginning #end #filmmaking #good #hollywood

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#acting #actor #ago #also #ask

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

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