59 Best filmmaking Quotes

Big CGI fight coming up! – Deadpool

We're going to be dropped into the shit. We're going to be surrounded by it. We are the shit. – Damien Cockburn

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. – Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Advice filmmaking Action Learning Practice

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The most overrated quality in filmmaking is originality. – Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Originality filmmaking Art Convention Execution

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All you can do is fantasize that you're going to do the most incredible movie anyone has ever seen, and then you try to make it. – Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Ambition Aspiration Art filmmaking Dreams

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The best way to learn about film is to make one. – Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Learning filmmaking Experience Action Education

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I'm a student of film. I'm a filmmaker, but I'm always a student. – Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese Learning Humility filmmaking Education Growth

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The camera is a pen. You can write with it. – Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese Camera tool Writing Expression filmmaking

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You have to have a tremendous amount of energy to make a film. It's a marathon. – Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese Energy Perseverance filmmaking Marathon Work

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You don't make a movie to make money. You make a movie to make another movie. – Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese Passion purpose Money filmmaking cycle

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The challenge is to get the audience to care about your obsessions. – Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese Challenge audience Obsession Connection filmmaking

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For me, filmmaking is a journey, an adventure. – Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese filmmaking Journey Adventure Process Discovery

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I'm responsible for the words, I'm responsible for the directing, I'm responsible for the casting, I'm responsible for the music, I'm responsible for the editing. – Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino Responsibility control Vision filmmaking Auteur

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I don't make movies to make money; I make money to make more movies. – Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg Art Passion commerce purpose filmmaking

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The scary thing is, what if you do this movie about a shark and nobody comes? That was my biggest fear. – Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg fear Risk filmmaking Anxiety Failure

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I like to use the camera as a pen. – Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg filmmaking Camera Craft Expression visual storytelling

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I've never made a film that I didn't learn something from. – Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg Learning Growth Process filmmaking Humility

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I think the audience is the final collaborator. – Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg audience Collaboration filmmaking Interpretation Art

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I'm not a politician. I'm a filmmaker. My job is to hold a mirror up to the world, not to change it. – Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg filmmaking Reflection Art Responsibility Observation

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I try to make movies for myself, but I also make them for the audience. It's a very delicate balance. – Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg audience self-expression Balance filmmaking Art

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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. – Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock suspense Terror Anticipation fear filmmaking

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. – Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock filmmaking Practicality audience Humor constraints

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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. – Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock actors Direction control filmmaking Humor

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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. – Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock fear filmmaking catharsis Psychology personal expression

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Emotion is not something that comes out of the sky; it has to be designed. – Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Emotion Design Craft filmmaking intention

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Violence on the screen can be beautiful if it is stylized. – Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock violence Beauty style Aesthetics filmmaking

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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. – Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock audience manipulation control Emotion filmmaking

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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. – Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Direction filmmaking documentary feature film control Reality

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With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script, even a good director can't possibly make a good film. – Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa script Direction filmmaking Foundation Craft

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Unless you have a really good reason to make a film, it's not worth the trouble. – Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa purpose filmmaking intention Art Motivation

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When you are shooting a film, you are creating a new world. – Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa filmmaking Creation world-building Reality Art

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I think that cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. – Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola Cinema Magic History Illusion filmmaking

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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. – Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola Chaos Passion scale Creation filmmaking

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The Godfather was a very unappreciated movie when we were making it. – Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola Godfather Appreciation filmmaking Struggle Perspective

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The most important single element in any film is the screenplay. It's the blueprint. – Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola screenplay blueprint Foundation filmmaking Writing

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I think that when you make a movie, you always have to be in a state of dreaming. – Francis Ford Coppola