Shooting Quotes - Page 8

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.

The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.

I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future - that's how evolution occurs.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.

This is my sadness for shooting my friend

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.

We with [ Marjane Satrapi] always work together on the script which is very important. We even film each other and we start to imagine things so that we are ready, because when you start shooting, it's pretty stressful.

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

I don't want anybody shooting, but I can't stop it.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated. It is only a matter of time until a big one hits us. And since we can do something about it, we should.

Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving