Fun Filmmaking Quotes & Sayings

Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction. — Robin Boyd

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress. — Ben Lewin

Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues
- 1654 — Esmerelda Jane Forstine

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.' — Noah Baumbach

I love filmmaking when fate is a part of the process and you are dependent on the laws of physics and the elements to get a single moment that transports or in some way creates an illusion even for a moment. I think that is tremendous fun and what I think filmmaking is, catching lightning in a bottle. — Larry Fessenden

Beyond gravity, some of that freedom was regained; with the loss of weight went many of the cares and worries of Earth. Heywood — Arthur C. Clarke

The federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots. — Neal Stephenson

I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting. — James Cromwell

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case. — John Adams

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively. — M. Night Shyamalan

Later film shoots' casting calls would advertise that they're "fun shoots" and a "good way to get exposure" - but working in entertainment is not entertaining, even though it is not what's traditionally thought of as "work." You know what's fun, indie filmmakers? Being paid for your time. — J. Richard Singleton

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. — Jeremy Piven

I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do. — Oren Peli

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone. — Dan Chaon

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. — John Battelle

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win. — Michael Jai White

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer. — Gary Lineker