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Filmmaker Inspirational Quotes (3145)

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I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
Afia Nathaniel
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We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.
Wong Kar-wai
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I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'
Wong Kar-wai
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I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
Wong Kar-wai
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I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?
Wong Kar-wai
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In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.
Wong Kar-wai
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We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.
Wong Kar-wai
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I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.
Wong Kar-wai
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Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.
Wong Kar-wai
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It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.
Todd Solondz
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I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.
Ingmar Bergman
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Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.
Angelina Jolie
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Love is mistranslated into sex, because sex is not an expression of love. Sex is an expression of physical activity. It can be an expression of love between two people in love, but it's a carnal expression.
RZA
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I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?
Angelina Jolie
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Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.
John Waters
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
Billy Wilder
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I always like to cite John Cage's mantra, If you can stand it for two-minutes, try it for four. In fact, when I look at some of those early films of mine, I think, Oh my God. Cut it, cut it. The general sense of duration has changed over the years, my own sensibility with it.
Yvonne Rainer
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We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.
Michael Moore
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All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.
Paul Greengrass
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I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
John Waters
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To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.
Angelina Jolie
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Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket camera and put it on websites. I think that's where the most exciting kind of imagery and content is being recorded and exchanged today.
Jonas Mekas
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I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people - usually from those rare normal families that I longed for as a child and as an adult wonder if they even exist - didn't understand this and sort of looked down their noses at people suffering with addiction.
Brian Lindstrom
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Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.
David Cronenberg
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