Filmmaking Quotes

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
― Martin Scorsese

“The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.”
― Guillermo del Toro

“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.”
― D.W. Griffith

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”
― Werner Herzog

“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She'd gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn't known before, but now she knew that the soul does exist. There's something very beautiful in that. It was worth making Véronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing as a soul. It's worth it.”
― Krzysztof Kieślowski, Kieslowski on Kieslowski

“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.

Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.”
― Dziga Vertov

“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.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
― Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith

“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”
― Robert Bresson

“Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.”
― John Cassavetes, Cassavetes on Cassavetes

“I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.”
― Peter Greenaway

“Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.”
― Darlene Craviotto, An Agoraphobic's Guide to Hollywood: How Michael Jackson Got Me Out of the House

“Meanwhile, back at reality..."- G.Lucas”
― Robert Lynn Asprin, Sweet Myth-Tery of Life

“Most of the movies are working like, 'Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut' and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information - I try to involve, to the movie, the time, the space, and a lot of other things - which is a part of our life but not connecting directly to the story-telling. And I'm working on the same way - 'information, cut, information, cut,' but for me the information is not only the story.”
― Béla Tarr

“All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.”
― John Yorke, Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story

“When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it.”
― Katherine Howe, The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen

“Every story is altered in the process of telling it. Ultimately, it doesn't matter what your budget or resources are because in any case, you're only ever making a version of the story you conceived.”
― Jake Mahaffy, Micro-Budget Methods of Cinematic Storytelling: A Practical Guide to Making Narrative Media with Minimal Means

“When a young boy says he wants to direct movies, people give him a camera and how to book. When a girl says the same thing, they ask her to be an actress.”
― Nicole Russin-McFarland

“...true decolonization was not just a political project, but also one rooted in self-actualization through self-expression.”
― Amy Sall, The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power

“I live my scripts, born from my life” — Yvonne Padmos, Film The Challenge: 50 Filmscripts”
― Yvonne Padmos

“In the silence of solitude, my mirror sings my truth." – short movie My Mirror, My Only Echo”
― Yvonne Padmos

“One minute, one mirror, one story of an unseen soul." – short movie My Mirror, My Only Echo”
― Yvonne Padmos

“No family, no ties—just me and my reflection’s heart." – short movie My Mirror, my only echo Yvonne Padmos”
― Yvonne Padmos

“Writing is my life, my mirror my only friend." – short movie My Mirror, My Only Echo”
― Yvonne Padmos

“In glass, I find my wholeness; in solitude, my strength." – short movie My Mirror, my only echo Yvonne Padmos”
― Yvonne Padmos

“On cinema:
There’s no need to set rigid boundaries. A frame is a painting, a storyline is a script. The present moment can’t be measured. Freedom itself is the new language.”
― Nadiya Karahayeva

“On perception:
Angles in film are as invented as the relationship between objects and space in paintings. In the end, everything is open to debate — and can be reshaped, reframed, reimagined…”
― Nadiya Karahayeva

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― sami abouzid

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― Sami abouzid