Anna Kendrick Quotes

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.