I am a big fan of quotes. Especially quotes that come from successful men and women that I both admire and respect. What I find beautiful about quotes is how they offer you the opportunity to gain wisdom, inspiration or insight on a topic based on the experience of others.
Here are some quotes about filmmaking. Some are informative, some are encouraging and others are just plain entertaining. Enjoy.
First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it is been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it.
Richard Donner
A good director is not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
Elia Kazan
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you did not intend to be there.
Spike Lee
Casting is 65 percent of directing.
John Frankenheimer
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
Brian De Palma
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
Roman Polanski
If somebody has a better idea than me, I will take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it is me that takes the credit anyway!
Guy Ritchie
Do not be told something is impossible. There is always a way.
Robert Rodriguez
People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I am not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I am making a movie that people are going to look at.
Ridley Scott
In England, I am a horror movie director. In Germany, I am a filmmaker. In the US, I am a bum.
John Carpenter
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
Robert Wise
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
Edward Zwick
You can not second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
Ralph Bakshi
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it is going to survive; and if it is not, well, it will not.
Sam Mendes
An Oscar means a lot of things because it is like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you are creating you should not think about it.
Alejandro Amenabar
A typewriter needs only paper; a camera uses film, requires subsidiary equipment by the truckload and Wellington several hundreds of technicians. That is always the central fact about the filmmakers opposed to any other artist: he can never afford his own tools.
Orson Welles
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick
People told me I could not kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
Tim Burton
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
Francis Ford Coppola
I steal from every movie ever made.
Quentin Tarantino
