Movie Making Quotes

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

“I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)”
― Guillermo del Toro

“The true ENTREPRENEUR is a risk taker, not an excuse maker.”
― VDEXTERS

“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Making a movie is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.”
― William Eubank

“Milicent Patrick’s final resting place is in every single Creature from the Black Lagoon T-shirt, every Metaluna Mutant toy, every VHS tape of Fantasia, every DVD of The Shape of Water.
It’s on the desk of every female animator and in the pen of every woman doodling a monster in the margins of her notebook. It’s always been there. It’s just been hidden, purposely obfuscated.
Now, it’s in every copy of this book, i your hands or on your ears.”
― Mallory O’Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Call me old-fashioned, but The Shape of Water is a tour de force. Maddening. Heartfelt. Sick. Nostalgic. An Ode to Todd McCarthy, Arnold Glassman, and Stuart Samuels’ documentary film, Visions of Light. By all means, take a bow.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“Violence is in every part of India and violence is in every part of an Indian body; Indian films are the evidence of the evilest experiments against peace, nonviolence, and humanity”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“This was the best part of a first kiss. The anticipation. The clamoring hearts and the tentative sighs. The searching eyes and the luxury of knowing that something wonderful was about to happen. And when Matt's lips grazed my cheek, I closed my eyes and knew that, yes, I was exactly where I was supposed to be.

And when he kissed me, ah... at last, I knew that in his arms was exactly where I planned to stay. All my senses swirled and merged into one big arc of longing as he held me tight. His kiss was perfect. Full of promise and hope and cravings that I couldn't wait to satisfy even while knowing I could never get enough of him.

The Universe, just to make sure that we'd gotten the message, sent fireworks into the sky overhead, bursting with shimmering light. Or maybe it was just Clancy and the guys from the fire station starting the Lilac Festival show, but either way, there were definitely fireworks.”
― Tracy Brogan, My Kind of Perfect

“Everyday is a movie, only if everybody's lives were captured on reel.”
― Suyasha Subedi

“The Sixth Sensewas ultimately nominated for six Academy Awards. Completed at a cost of $35 million, it earned just under $300 million in the United States alone,the most successful live-action film in Disney’s history.

David Vogel, Disney’s President of Production (recently dismissed by Michael Eisner after purchasingThe Sixth Sensewithout permission) had been right when he told Eisner thathe’d left Disney with one of its biggest pictures.Vogel hadn’t found another job and had pretty much stopped looking. He had decided he no longer wanted to rely on the Machiavellian instincts he found necessary to continue as a movie executive. A few studio people called to congratulate him on the film’s enormous success, but he heard nothing from any of the top Disney executives, including Eisner, Roth, and Schneider. Of course, Vogel was one of the few people who knew that Disney had sold off both the foreign and domestic profits to Spyglass, and would earn only a 12.5 percent distribution fee. He wondered what Eisner thought now.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War