Filmmaking 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

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

~ Darlene Craviotto

Success involves failing first. Ask any successful person. Ask any experienced person, really. It's all part of the creative process, so sit back and allow the artist within you to sprout, blossom and flourish. You must accept that your first, second, and third attempt at something might suck. It's a necessary step in improving your skill. Failure is your teacher, not your judge.

~ Connor Franta

Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If you don't lose first you are not entitled to win.

~ Wilfredo Aqueron

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

~ A.d. Posey

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

~ A.d. Posey

Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

~ Val Uchendu

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

~ John Cassavetes

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

~ Robert Rodríguez

Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.

~ A.d. Posey

Transform into your dream.

~ A.d. Posey

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

~ A.d. Posey

Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.

~ Artie Kane

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!

~ Gerard De Marigny

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

~ Peter Biskind

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

~ Amit Kalantri

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

~ Amit Kalantri

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect

~ Werner Herzog

Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

~ Angie-Marie Delsante

i Create. I don't Need.Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.

~ Jonathan Heatt

Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.

~ Morr Meroz

If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.

~ Dawn Garcia

Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it. To encourage it. Because every single day we encounter forces that would rather it went away.

~ Hafiz

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

~ Mark Polish

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas for an I-Pad. Celluloid isn't just nostalgic, it's an art form and, like it or not, it's superior to digital. It lasts much longer, it provides grain and brighter colors, and it takes more effort so that it produces something wonderful. With the inferior binary codes, pixels and untested shelf-life of digital files, plus the fact that these days anyone with a digital camera, even a two-year-old, can make a video and pollute the world with self-photography and cat pictures, film has a lot more integrity and worth than digital.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

To be honest, I’ve always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad’s Super 8 camera. In my mind, it’s all one big continuum of filmmaking and I’ve never changed.

~ Christopher J. Nolan

…the great thing about literature is that you can imagine, the great thing about film is that you can’t.

~ James Monaco

Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.

~ Abhijit Naskar