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QUOTES

  

“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



"Cinema is an unhappy art as it depends on money."

– Andrei Tarkovsky



"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

— Walt Disney



"You have to want to make films so badly you could kill."
— Francis Ford Coppola



“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



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

– Orson Welles



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

– Albert Einstein

 
 

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.  Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

– Franz Kafka



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

– Anne Lai, Sundance Institute



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

– Ed Catmull, President @ Pixar



"Creativity is taking unrelated things or ideas and putting them together in a fresh way."

— Howard Scott Warshaw, Game Designer @ Atari



“No is only No for Now.”

In response to getting passes on his scripts.

– Sheldon Candis, Filmmaker



“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, Filmmaker

 
 

“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 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

 

“Be emotionally invested—not emotionally attached.”

Advice for writing your screenplays.

– Scott Carr, Talent 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

  
 

“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

  
 

“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

 


“Don’t reach up. Reach OUT.”

– Daniel Noah, Filmmaker



"Time wasn't wasted at Atari.  Engineers were wasted at Atari."

— Howard Scott Warshaw, Game Designer @ Atari



“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, Movie Mogul
 


"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



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