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• Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

  Robert Altman

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• I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It’s all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

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• What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

  Alexander Payne

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• The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you’re trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o’clock in the morning when you’re all on your own you’re going, ‘Geez, I hope I know what I’m doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.’

  Gavin Hood

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• I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you’re working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

  Werner Herzog

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• I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.

  Todd Haynes

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• Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He’s always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• I’d come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making ‘Good Will Hunting’ was experimental because I didn’t know how to do it.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

  Peter Jackson

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• Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

  Peter Jackson

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• I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we’d worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.

  Gerard Butler

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• I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

  Diane Lane

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• Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

  Gene Tierney

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• I love independent filmmaking. I don’t agree with a lot of it, but that’s the point.

  Gena Rowlands

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• Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director’s hat is only trying to justify his position.

  Gary Oldman

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• I didn’t know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

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• The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

  Tessa Charlotte Rampling

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• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  Ted Kotcheff

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• When you’re actually making the film, you’re constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  Ted Kotcheff

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• Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there’s nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It’s that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice – it’s that times 800.

  Eddie Redmayne

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