Quotes About Filmmaking

Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

I feel so part of the filmmaking community. It's amazing how much people support each other.

Filmmaking is a very serious job, and I want to concentrate on that.

There was nobody in my family who knew anything about the film industry. I'm from the west of Scotland. It's not exactly a mecca for filmmaking. I think I saw Rab C. Nesbitt in Asda once, but that was about it.

I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very quickly, and that is something to be aware of in any type of filmmaking.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

I used to act in plays when I was in school and college, but you cannot say that I was passionate about acting. I was only interested in being a part of the group, and the group was passionate about filmmaking.

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.

Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

Filmmaking is never easy as long as you continue learning from the process.

I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented.

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

I think it's really important that you don't get caught up in the way the filmmaking community isolates you and the way your life ends up being.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.