Quotes About Filmmaking

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the camera and go figure it out.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

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.'

My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you're in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.

For me, it doesn't matter what kind of role I am doing. I just enjoy the process of acting and filmmaking.

A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to work in another. For me... I'd be quite content to keep doing my own little films down there for the rest of my filmmaking career.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I think filmmaking is a team work and it's a shared responsibility.

People should be good, established people; the filmmaking and acting experience should be heartening. So I chose films where I would get a good experience, not just great roles.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

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.