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Quotes about filmmaking reveal the art, struggle, and imagination behind bringing stories to life on screen. They reflect the balance between technical craft and emotional truth that defines the medium. The following collection offers perspectives from those who see cinema not just as entertainment, but as a powerful way of seeing the world.   ◀ Back
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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
- John Hughes
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Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.
- Jet Li
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Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Ultimately, if you look at all my films from 'Bloody Sunday' on, they're steeped in a post-9/11 atmosphere. 'United 93' is directly about 9/11, of course, but every one of the movies deals with paranoia, mistrust, and fear.
- Paul Greengrass
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I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.
- Kevin Hart
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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
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Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
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I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
- Donna Mills
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If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
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We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
- Jay Chandrasekhar
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'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
- John Cena
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Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.
- Jared Harris
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
- Stanley Kubrick
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
- Marlene Dietrich
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
- James Cameron
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The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
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If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
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You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
- Mary Schmich
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
- Naomi Watts
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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
- Tippi Hedren
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Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.
- James Gunn
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
- Adam Duritz
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The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.
- Lily James
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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
- John Hughes
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Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.
- Jet Li
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Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Ultimately, if you look at all my films from 'Bloody Sunday' on, they're steeped in a post-9/11 atmosphere. 'United 93' is directly about 9/11, of course, but every one of the movies deals with paranoia, mistrust, and fear.
- Paul Greengrass
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I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.
- Kevin Hart
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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
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Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
- Donna Mills
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If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
- Jay Chandrasekhar
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'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
- John Cena
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Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.
- Jared Harris
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
- Stanley Kubrick
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
- Marlene Dietrich
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
- James Cameron
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The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
- Mary Schmich
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
- Naomi Watts
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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
- Tippi Hedren
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Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.
- James Gunn
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
- Adam Duritz
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The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.
- Lily James
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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
- John Hughes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.
- Jet Li
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Ultimately, if you look at all my films from 'Bloody Sunday' on, they're steeped in a post-9/11 atmosphere. 'United 93' is directly about 9/11, of course, but every one of the movies deals with paranoia, mistrust, and fear.
- Paul Greengrass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.
- Kevin Hart
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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
- Donna Mills
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
- Jay Chandrasekhar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
- John Cena
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.
- Jared Harris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
- Stanley Kubrick
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I never enjoyed working in a film.
- Marlene Dietrich
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
- James Cameron
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
- Mary Schmich
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
- Naomi Watts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
- Tippi Hedren
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.
- James Gunn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
- Adam Duritz
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The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.
- Lily James
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