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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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Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
- Christopher Hampton
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You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
- David Fincher
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Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
- Mel Brooks
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
- Federico Fellini
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
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Film lovers are sick people.
- Francois Truffaut
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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
- Sam Peckinpah
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I make movies I want to see.
- Neil LaBute
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Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
- Pauline Kael
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The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
- John Huston
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I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
- Spike Lee
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Sex is a must topic. Even every Bollywood movies has such highlighted content.
- Rakhi Sawant
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I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
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The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
- Charlton Heston
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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
- Richard Pryor
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The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
- Tom Hanks
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I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.
- James Roday
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Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
- Christopher Hampton
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You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
- David Fincher
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Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
- Mel Brooks
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
- Federico Fellini
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Film lovers are sick people.
- Francois Truffaut
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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
- Sam Peckinpah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I make movies I want to see.
- Neil LaBute
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Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
- Pauline Kael
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
- John Huston
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I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
- Spike Lee
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Sex is a must topic. Even every Bollywood movies has such highlighted content.
- Rakhi Sawant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
- Charlton Heston
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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
- Richard Pryor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
- Tom Hanks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.
- James Roday
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Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
- Christopher Hampton
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
- David Fincher
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
- Mel Brooks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
- Federico Fellini
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Film lovers are sick people.
- Francois Truffaut
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
- Sam Peckinpah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I make movies I want to see.
- Neil LaBute
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
- Pauline Kael
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
- John Huston
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
- Spike Lee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sex is a must topic. Even every Bollywood movies has such highlighted content.
- Rakhi Sawant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
- Charlton Heston
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
- Richard Pryor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
- Tom Hanks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.
- James Roday
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