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I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out through a couple projects just wasn't possible. That's not saying anything about the artist. If you're making an Usher video, you're making an Usher video, not a film with an Usher song in it.
- Hiro Murai
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I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.
- Mark Romanek
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I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
- Darren Aronofsky
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When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
- Yash Chopra
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Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
- Ridley Scott
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Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.
- Duncan Jones
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I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.
- Marco Brambilla
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When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.
- R. Madhavan
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Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.
- Travis Knight
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Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.
- Doug Liman
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I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
- Kathryn Bigelow
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
- K'naan
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
- Gale Anne Hurd
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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 had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
- Bahman Ghobadi
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Filmmaking is no easy task.
- Divya Khosla Kumar
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Filmmaking is teamwork.
- Rajkummar Rao
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When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
- Tony Kaye
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I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
- Jason Lee
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
- Barry Jenkins
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As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of.
- Elijah Wood
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
- Garth Davis
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When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.
- Lauren Greenfield
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Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
- Julia Leigh
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It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
- Julia Leigh
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Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.
- Ari Aster
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The best horror walks a line that's completely on a psychological level, not needing the typical tropes of traditional horror filmmaking, then also having to tease out those elements in a way that makes the audience feel like they know what they're in.
- Karyn Kusama
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
- Osric Chau
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
- Abel Ferrara
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I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
- Alexander Payne
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Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.
- Henry Selick
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Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.
- Greg MacGillivray
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The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.
- Sreenivasan
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I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.
- Freddie Wong
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Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.
- Gabriel Luna
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I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an actress and create something so bamboozling and monumental and fathomless in terms of publicity hits.
- Debra Granik
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
- Victor Salva
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It was in Kanpur where I got exposed to the art of filmmaking.
- Vijay Krishna Acharya
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I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.
- George Hickenlooper
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Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
- Amy J. Berg
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Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
- Greg Kinnear
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Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
- Dean Devlin
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I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.
- Oren Peli
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I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.
- Oren Peli
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Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
- Drew Goddard
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I really got into filmmaking through photography.
- Todd Phillips
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There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
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Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.
- Jay Duplass
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Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to the films? No, because filmmaking and acting is my only work.
- Dev Anand
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It's been a dream to work alongside the talented team at Lucasfilm and ILM to make advancements and improvements to the filmmaking process to help tell stories more efficiently.
- Greig Fraser
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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
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Filmmaking, it has been my first love.
- Rasika Dugal
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Intimate scenes or a kiss is a very technical aspect of filmmaking. It is extremely mechanical.
- Shraddha Kapoor
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Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration.
- Alex Garland
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In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.
- Jim Sturgess
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The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
- Hugh Grant
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Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikander.'
- Farah Khan
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Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.
- Farah Khan
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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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Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.
- Kim Ki-duk
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I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
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Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.
- Arjun Kapoor
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I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.
- Karan Johar
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I fell in love with filmmaking. I fell in love with criticism. I fell in love with theory, and it made me really dogmatic in my approach to choosing roles.
- Sarah Gadon
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Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.
- Vijay Krishna Acharya
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Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
- Michael Keaton
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Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
- Minnie Driver
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The beauty of filmmaking in Punjabi industry is that we never control the fun happening on the set.
- Binnu Dhillon
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The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers.
- Sidharth Malhotra
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Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.
- James McAvoy
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But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
- Mike Figgis
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I started doing non-surf stuff like commercials, short films, and music videos and just started expanding my filmmaking that way. I started doing that more for a career: you know, it was paying the bills, and it was challenging. I was stimulated by it.
- Taylor Steele
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For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.
- Pawel Pawlikowski
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I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of the way and support the director one hundred percent.
- Nicolas Winding Refn
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Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.
- Ram Gopal Varma
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After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
- Anand Mahindra
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I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.
- Daniel Wu
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If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.
- Tony Gilroy
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I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.
- Lucy Walker
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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
- Andy Serkis
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There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
- J. C. Chandor
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Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.
- Rajiv Menon
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
- Lars von Trier
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Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.
- Nicolas Winding Refn
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Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
- Bruce Feirstein
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I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.
- George Lucas
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The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.
- Richard King
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I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
- Charlize Theron
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I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
- Dermot Mulroney
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
- Steven Spielberg
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I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali
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Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.
- Nicolas Winding Refn
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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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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
- John Lasseter
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Filmmaking can be a fine art.
- Terri Windling
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The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
- Peter Jackson
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Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
- Robert Altman
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