Filmmaker Quotes

“I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.”
― David Lynch

“Being an artist or an author or even as a filmmaker, I bring my All to every project as who I am - artist, mother, daughter, wife, friend, citizen, teacher, philosopher, believer, and human. - Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow

“I love the French. They’re the biggest film buffs and protectors of cinema in the world. They really look out for the filmmaker and the rights of the filmmaker, and they believe in final cut.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

“Love heals what time cannot.”
― Drue Grit

“Every obstacle you face is a distraction from what you want. The trick is to know what you want and then when faced with the obstacle simply ask yourself "Does engaging with this get me closer to my goal?" If not, ignore it and move forward.”
― Vic Stah Milien

“… this is my first language.” {on Writing}”
― Dawn Garcia

“Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.”
― Dawn Garcia

“IN HIS PRESENCE, I FEEL OUR AXIS RECALIBRATING. Where North was once —and for eons — the assigned pull of the Earth, in Sunny’s universe, all magnets drive us South. Or West. Or deep into the core because that’s more interesting to him. He’s a world-creator; he doesn’t walk from A to B the way most humans do, seeing what’s provided then dealing with, lamenting or pondering it. He creates what he wants and when you walk a path with him, you get shaped and reinvented, too. Not against your will, but more in tune with aspects of it, unfolding into the potential of a secret craving, fully funded.

~Amie, getting to know Sunny in The LOOK”
― Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

“The weak are always going to be under the control of the powerful. It is this way in all of nature. Intelligence is knowing where you stand in this truth and finding a way into the powerful group without anyone noticing you're doing so.”
― Vic Stah Milien

“Compromise is giving up a percentage of what you want to others. Teamwork is working towards 100% of what you want with others.”
― Vic Stah Milien

“Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.”
― Sylvester Stallone

“Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.”
― Sylvester Stallone

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“I may not be big, but my heart is”
― Sunny Menon

“I am an author and a filmmaker. Both challenge my creativity and compel me to think about issues that matter and that will bring about change.”
― Carlos Wallace

“This,” The Actor turns to indicate me, one arm casually wrapped around his good friend’s shoulder, “is the secret weapon I was telling you about. Amie Martine.”

“Amie,” he takes my hand, “you look surprised.”

“I’m sorry,” my smile’s so nonstop, it’s mechanically difficult to speak, “I guess, when he said ‘producer,’ I—”

“—didn’t picture me?”

“I’m guilty. Of thinking of you as an actor first.”

“Me, too.” His smile antes mine, then wins the bet. “I’m always an actor at heart. That’s who I am. You got it absolutely right.”

Compelling dark brown eyes with hints of golden amber. His body conducts such radiance, I’m sure the circuits in this room have all been blown by the solar flares in his present emanation.”
― Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

“I write from experience, and then I add fiction.”
― Drue Grit

“If a filmmaker has no originality, what's the difference between a filmmaker and a photocopier!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Filmmakers can be divided into two categories: those who strive to imitate the world they live in, to re-create the world that surrounds them...and the directors who create their own worlds. Those who create their own worlds are generally the poets... That is why they have trouble getting their films out. Because the audience is used to a symbolic, nonexistent film world...the result of the audience’s own interests and tastes. The directors I named have all opposed this...that the taste of the audience should be the deciding factor. Not because they want to be obscure, but because they actually want to listen secretly. To give expression to what is deep inside those we call the audience.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“(About the last quote from Camus) Camus says that the society of merchants, looking upon liberty as a “right for themselves” not a “duty toward others”, and this is the remark that I am attracted to: free will and liberty of human beings, further than being their right, is their duty. We say duty toward God…”
― Morteza Avini, رستاخیز جان

“Clint finally became fed up with his wife, Maggie. ‘He just turned around and cold-cocked her,’ recollected Fritz Manes. ‘Just decked her — knocked her right flat on her ass, clear from the living room into the bathtub in the bathroom.”
― Patrick McGilligan, Clint: The Life and Legend

“Regarding Clint’s methods (as a director), he was a very impatient man who doesn’t really plan his pictures or do any homework, truthfully. He figures he can go right in and sail right through these things. Clint was just as impatient as an actor, especially in an action picture when directing himself. For example, Clint was always blowing his lines. It’s very hard for him to say more than four lines consecutively.

And no matter if Clint forgot his lines, he would insist that the camera pick up the dialogue just where he had left off, without going back and starting the lines over. It was the cameraman’s problem to choose different angles and make the pickups, or transitions, work. Notorious for doing his acting scenes with multiple pickups, Clint had an ironclad belief that everything could be fixed in the editing room. Nobody among his fans would notice the incongruities.”
― Patrick McGilligan, Clint: The Life and Legend

“I will never win an Oscar and do you know why?" Clint liked to aver. "Because I’m not Jewish.”
― Patrick McGilligan, Clint: The Life and Legend

“There's no explaining why something's funny. It just is.”
― Billy Crystal

“The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.”
― George Lucas

“In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before.”
― Emilio Estevez

“So, my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.”
― Gene Wilder

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else. Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.”
― Bob Fosse