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“This is insane, I mean you go to a university to learn how to make movies?”

When he first discovered the USC film school.

– George Lucas



“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.’”

– Quentin Tarantino



“Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

– George Lucas



“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

–  Albert Einstein



“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

– Voltaire



“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

– Orson Welles, filmmaker



“A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.”

– Orson Welles, filmmaker



“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough.”

– Albert Einstein

 
 

“Die Hard is an action film about a guy trying to save his marriage.”

– Carl Ellsworth, screenwriter

 
 

“I don’t have a magic wand—I have a phone.”

– Dave Boxerbaum, agent @ Verve

 
 

“We’re not in the filmmaking business. We’re in the marketing business.”

In response to what’s wrong with Hollywood. – JC Spink, producer

 
 

“Repetition is Bankable.”

– Dina Kuperstock, agent @ CAA

 
 

“CAA is an ecosphere of specialists in all facets of the entertainment industry”

– Dina Kuperstock, agent @ CAA

 
 

“It’s not a marriage. It’s dating.”

In response to your relationship with your agent or manager.

– John Swetnam, writer/director

 
 

“You don’t get in a car and randomly start driving.”

In response to the three-act structure. – Alex Litvak, screenwriter

 
 

“You’re not reinventing the wheel—you’re putting a fresh tire on it.”

– Alex Litvak, screenwriter

 
 

“We’re basically a lot like those VIP 'tasters' in what we do for a living.

Unfortunately the scripts we read are usually like poison.”

– Adam Novack, head of the story dept. @ WME

 
 

“Agents are not good at starting fires but we’re great at spreading them. We just need something to spark it.” – Rob Lazar, agent & manager

 
 

“It’s not fast-talking. It’s fast-moving.”

– Youssef Delara, filmmaker

 
 

“No is only No for Now.”

In response to getting passes on his scripts. – Sheldon Candis, filmmaker

 
 

“Be emotionally invested—not emotionally attached.”

Advice for writing your screenplays. – Scott Carr, manager

 
 

“Everyone has to find their lane in this business.”

– Cale Boyter, producer & studio executive

 
 

“Directing for Television is like being a substitute teacher.”

– Charles Stone III, director

 
 

“The poster is like a front door to a house.”

– Chadney Cooles, indie filmmaker

 
 

“You have to look at everything as being transactional.”

– Matt Fisch, writer

 
 

“Rely most on your voice and vision rather than craft because craft can be taught.”

– Anne Lai, Sundance Institute

 
 

“It’s not the note. It’s the reason for the note.”

– Matthew Sand, screenwriter

 
 

“Sell me on why you care.”

– Matthew Sand, screenwriter

 
 

“To forget I’m reading a script.”

In response to what she’s looking for in a script. – Kerry Ehrin, screenwriter/showrunner

 
 

“Making a movie is like a school of fish.”

– Shaked Berenson, producer

 
 

“Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft.”

– Ed Catmull, president of Pixar

 
 

“Don’t ever chase money. Chase your dreams. Do what you love.”

– Tom DeSanto, producer & screenwriter

 
 

“There’s creativity but no control.”

In reference to working on Big IP like Kong or Godzilla. – Max Borenstein, screenwriter

 


“I don’t want any ‘Yes-Men’ around me.

I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.”

— Samuel Goldwyn, famed producer & movie mogul
 


“Don’t reach up. Reach OUT.”

– Daniel Noah, filmmaker



"I made essentially a mistake staying in movies... but it's a mistake I can't regret because it's like saying, ‘I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.’  I would have been more successful if I'd left movies immediately. Stayed in the theater, gone into politics, written--anything.  I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money, and trying to get along... trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paint box which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with a movie. It's about 2% movie making and 98% hustling.

It's no way to spend a life.”

– Orson Welles, filmmaker



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