Filmmaking Quotes

“I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.”

“Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.”

“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.”

“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.”

“Filmmaking can be a fine art.”

“It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.”

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”

“If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.”

“When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.”