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Moviemaking is a hard job and this industry is crazy. You never know what is going to happen. -- Ryuhei Kitamura
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out. -- Pauline Kael
As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel. -- David Cronenberg
Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
I can see how a person could get addicted to the adrenaline of moviemaking. -- Suki Waterhouse
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies. -- Chris Kattan
If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. -- Michael Caine
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process. -- Leonard Maltin
My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.' -- Gia Coppola
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking. -- Eriq La Salle
On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of. -- Kate Winslet
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. -- Carl Hiaasen
A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general. -- Robert Rodriguez
It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything. -- Zack Snyder
Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do. -- Maiwenn
I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good. -- Joel Edgerton
I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment. -- Jason Reitman
Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking. -- Mike Nichols
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage. -- Debbie Allen
I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art. -- Ryan Reynolds
I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them. -- John Patrick Shanley
You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that. -- John Patrick Shanley
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. -- Tom Hanks
With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you. -- Josh Fox
I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl. -- Harvey Weinstein
Collaborative is my favorite word in moviemaking. -- J. K. Simmons
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies -- Chris Kattan
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people. -- Quentin Dupieux
We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out. -- Bill Paxton
It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other. -- Graham King
People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me? -- Dale Carnegie
In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired. -- Frederick Wiseman
A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget. -- Audrey Tautou

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