Filmmaking Quotes

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

There are no rules in filmmaking

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.