Quotes About Film Making

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orson Welles

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci

Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

Phillipe Petit

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Frank Capra

We're trying to reinforce the idea that you don't have to have money to have fun, read, be educated, see a band or watch a documentary.

Josh Banno

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Spike Lee

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Werner Herzog

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Roger Ebert

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles