Filmmaking Passion Quotes & Sayings

At first, the question was, Who's to blame? But then, when we learned more, we started thinking, What should we do? — Svetlana Alexievich

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different. — Pierce Brosnan

The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart. — Wm. Paul Young

I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played. — Nick Offerman

Other couples are living separately ever after, — Jennifer Coburn

My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada. — Joseph Plaskett

What happens to other species also happens to us. — Bill Nye

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm. — Barbara Kopple

It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do. — Spike Lee

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other. — Runoko Rashidi

The gates of monarchs
Are arched so high that giants may jet through
And keep their impious turbans on without
Good morrow to the sun. — William Shakespeare

I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes. — Elie Wiesel

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit. — Robert Rodriguez

If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it. — Robert Rodriguez

I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project. — Eva Green

While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over the years that it has become much easier. — Jenni Olson

Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk ...
Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is ... the existence of me! — Masashi Kishimoto

The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something. — David O. Russell

What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power! — Dada Bhagwan

What I always tell people is ... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car than not do it, find something else to do as a career and do filmmaking as a hobby. This industry is one of the hardest to break into and be successful. It takes a lot of passion and dedication for it to get anywhere ... — Ryan Connolly

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be. — Shane Carruth