Quotes About Filmmaking

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

There's definitely a psychology to making you feel important and like you're part of the game. It's a very special quality, especially with a first-time director.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

I really love to make movies.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith. I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue. Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. You could say I covered all the bases. I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC

Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.