Filming Quotes

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

~ Emma Thompson

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

~ Emma Thompson

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

~ Emma Thompson

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

~ Emma Thompson

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan on the oven in her flat. Apparently this happens all the time. The tenant in question is appearing as an extra -- playing one of the cooks.

~ Emma Thompson

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie.

~ Amit Kalantri

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

~ Emma Thompson

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

~ Emma Thompson

We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to cry but stopped every time Chris [Newman (assistant director)] yelled 'Action'. ... Babies smiled all afternoon. Buddhist babies. They didn't cry once. We, however, were all in tears by 5 p.m.

~ Emma Thompson

(On period costume posture coaching:)We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

~ Emma Thompson

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox from birth or dressing up a dog to look like a fox. Or hiring David Attenbrorough, who probably knows a few foxes well enough to ask a favour.

~ Emma Thompson

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]. They do it twice more. 'Don't pant so much,' said Ang. Greg [Wise (playing Willoughby)], to his great credit, didn't scream.

~ Emma Thompson

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

~ Harry Melling

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

~ Anna Kendrick

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.

~ Jennifer Lawrence