In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
~ Peter Jackson
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
~ Ridley Scott
Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.
~ Justin Bartha
Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall.
~ Richard Corliss
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
~ Terri Windling
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
~ Greg Kinnear
I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.
~ Joe Swanberg
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
~ Steven Spielberg
