138 Quotes About Filmmaking

I want you to know how deeply I wish to translate those ideas into images, just to quiet down the turmoil of my brain.

If you want to take a good shit, you have to eat a good meal.

This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express the Transcendent, an experience cannot. A form can express the common ground in which all things share. An experience can only express one man's reaction to that common ground.

Do Iranians make bad movies? I need to find one.

You’re my mascot, Paper Moon.”I was too tired to object. We both knew I was more than a mascot. I’d worked for my brother since I was eleven, for six long years.“You should stop calling me that,” I said.“I love that name.”“P.M. and her dad were crooks. It gives it away.

Readers of the book, paradoxically, will have a different kind of surprise in store for them: What many "Vertigo" aficionados will find perplexing are the systematic, businesslike, matter of fact circumstances under which this odd, obsessional, very un-matter-of-fact film was created.

Once the screenplay is finished, I'd just as soon not make the film at all ... I have a strongly visual mind. I visualise a picture right down to the final cuts. I write all this out in the greatest detail in the script, and then I don't look at the script while I'm shooting. I know it off by heart, just as an orchestra conductor needs not look at the score ... When you finish the script, the film is perfect. But in shooting it you lose perhaps 40 percent of your original conception

Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!