Moviemaking Quotes

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
― Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith

“On a movie set, the cry is 'Back to one!' to alert the cast and extras to reset to their original positions before the camera is rolled for the next take. Whenever I arrived at a place where the film business felt uncomfortable or downright unsafe for me, the place I often returned to was the theater. Onstage, we trust the material works, we assume all the actors are genuinely talented, and the work itself is the focus, unencumbered by the bullshit that often interferes with moviemaking. Back to one indeed.”
― Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless

“It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.”
― Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

“Life has a cruel way of balancing pleasure with pain. To make up for the joy of seeing Sophia Loren every morning, God punishes the director with the mix.”
― Sidney Lumet, Making Movies

“His job has ruined moviegoing for him, as he frequently gives the industry twelve- or fourteen hour days and is loath to give it an extra ninety minutes during his off time. Sloppy decision making at the top means the bottom works weekends. Often it's someone in an office in L.A. deciding whether or not my husband makes it home for dinner.”
― Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

“我不喜歡用議題或訊息這類詞彙來闡述或是被闡述作品。會被這類詞彙歸納的作品，鐵定是因為處理人的部分太弱了。沒有人的存在是為了故事或議題。我們只是那樣的活著——生命翻滾於那些樣態的活著。”
― Hirokazu Koreeda, 雲沒有回答: 高級官僚的生與死

“在製作紀錄片的時候，若事先用顏色區分對象為弱者與強者、善與惡的話，對製作人來說會很輕鬆。
決定行政、官僚為惡，從善良市民的角度告發。決定企業為惡，以貼近消費者的立場來描寫。
把這種「方便的圖像」嵌入到社會之中，反而有些事物會變得看不見。”
― Hirokazu Koreeda, 雲沒有回答: 高級官僚的生與死

“God is a great gaffer.”
― Dennis Hopper