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Filmmaker Inspirational Quotes (3145)

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As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
Michael Moore
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Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.
Edward Ruscha
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The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.
Emir Kusturica
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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
Angelina Jolie
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My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
Steve Sabol
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Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
H. R. Giger
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Hollywood is a land of self-invention.
Brian Koppelman
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We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.
Michael Moore
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
Allan Sekula
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I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.
Jim Jarmusch
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I don't let technology and mechanics hinder me from a good time. During one of a film premiere there was a party in the other room I needed to get to it, so I got out. I escaped. Sometimes you do what you can, you'll turn on your best John Maclean and get to it.
David Gordon Green
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I was a scientist. I know where the joy lies. It is wonderful finding a like-minded scientist and delving deep into the language that can only be understood by the handful of experts seated in the front row of your big talk. But good lord, it can be bo-ho-horing to the rest of the world. Make no mistake.
Randy Olson
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Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?
Saul Bass
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Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
Rebecca Miller
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I'm drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I'm meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.
Angelina Jolie
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I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.
Lav Diaz
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When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.
Alfonso Cuaron
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Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
Alfonso Cuaron
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The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.
Alfonso Cuaron
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As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.
Alfonso Cuaron
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Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.
Alfonso Cuaron
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There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.
Alfonso Cuaron
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I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.
Alfonso Cuaron
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I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
Alfonso Cuaron
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