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Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.
Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.
I feel filmmaking is not an easy task. People make films but sometimes they are not able to release it.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
Women should not only be doing action on-screen but should be a part of every other aspect of filmmaking.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.
I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
For me, it doesn't matter what kind of role I am doing. I just enjoy the process of acting and filmmaking.
The worst thing is that filmmaking is an expensive medium and money corrupts cinema right at the beginning.
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
My attention is more on the technical process of filmmaking; I like to observe cinematography and direction.
Filmmaking, whatever the window dressing or the scale of a film may be, is eventually about telling a story.
One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.
The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers.
Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.
My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.
It's important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.
Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.
You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.
I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.
I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.
It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.
There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.
The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.
Filmmaking is something that I'm really passionate about. Film, in general, is something that I'm passionate about.
Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'
My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.
I'm not always hopeful about the future in general, but I'm definitely hopeful about the future of filmmaking and art.
If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'
As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.
Filmmaking is hard enough as it is. If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier.
There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.
If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.
After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.