Sometimes, when I am stuck on a project, I like to read some stuff from people much wiser than I about the medium I'm working in and see if there's any advice or inspiration to glean. Today, I want to bring you some quotes from filmmakers across time to help kick your butt into gear and make you feel the magic of the moving picture. Let's dive in. The Best Quotes on FilmmakingOn Directing“A film is—or should be—more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” — Stanley Kubrick“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and make a movie of any kind at all.” — Stanley Kubrick"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed." — Stanley Kubrick“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.” — Martin Scorsese“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.” — Billy Wilder“The role of the director is to create a space where the actors can be fearless.” — Paul Thomas Anderson"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." — Orson Welles“The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the audience add it up to four.” — Ernst Lubitsch"To make a film is to create a world."...
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