138 Quotes About Filmmaking

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

The filmmaking process taught me that I need to be authentic—in my scripts and in real life.

The foundation of Hollywood alchemically turned celluloid into gold and insincerity into an art form.

Because filmmaking is a brutal industry. You don't get anywhere unless you work more than anyone else. Unless you're better than they are.

The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world & show business is a man's meal with women generously sprinkled through it like over-qualified spice.

Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it. To encourage it. Because every single day we encounter forces that would rather it went away.