Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ayer

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.

Michelle Rodriguez

When you make a film, you have to follow filmmaking rules. Like, a soundtrack... can get in the way of the serenity of the game.

Andrzej Wajda

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

David Ayer

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

Frank Capra

There are no rules in filmmaking

Christopher Nolan

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

Lars von Trier

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

Werner Herzog

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Terrell Falk

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Andy Wachowski

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Christopher Eccleston

It must be heartbreaking for a filmmaker to actually start something like that. And then to have some terrible, terrible weather problems.

Ridley Scott

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

Brian Miller

The most successful (Austin) filmmakers are intensely loyal. The people who do well here tend not to go off to LA. They stay here.

Ethan Thillo

There are more Latino movies, made by Latino filmmakers and more people interested in Latino cinema.

Anil Kapoor

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Curtis Hanson

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

Curtis Hanson

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Al Pacino

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Chip Kidd

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

China Chow

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

Audre Lorde

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

Charles M. Schwab

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

Charles M. Schulz

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

Catherine Booth

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.