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β€œIf it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.” Stanley Kubrick #filmmaking #screenwriting #cinema
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β€œIf it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.” Stanley Kubrick #filmmaking #screenwriting #indiefilm #cinema #movies #FilmTwitter
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"You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all." John Cassavetes
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β€œI have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.” Francois Truffaut
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β€œLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
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β€œGentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room!”
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"A Film with a happy ending is an unfinished story." Orson Welles
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"In England, I am a horror movie #director . In Germany, I am a #filmmaker . In the US, I am a bum." John Carpenter "
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All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. -Sidney Lumet
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"We struggle with insecurity because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. -Francois Truffaut
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β€œLife is very, very confusing, and so films should be allowed to be, too.” David Lynch #movies #FilmTwitter #cinema #filmmaking #screenwriting #film #indiefilm
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." Charlie Chaplin
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β€œWe think too much and feel too little.” #classicmovies #charliechaplin #cinema
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β€˜You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.’
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"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed." Stanley Kubrick http://t.co/5MV1bHvwcu
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Brando on the set of Apocalypse Now
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Marlon Brando on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's APOCALYPSE NOW (1979). Photo by Mary Ellen Mark.
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"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
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The most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things."
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R.I.P. Sam Shepard
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Martin Scorsese Directing Robert De Niro in 'Taxi Driver' (1976)
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"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
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Rule # 7 for Indie Filmmakers - Work with Actors, Not Celebrities @NoAltFilm
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β€œWell, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.” Groundhog Day
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"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life." Lawrence Kasdan
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β€œOnly someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.” ― Ingmar Bergman
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"I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect."
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"If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that's a script."
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β€œCourage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway.”
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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." -Orson Welles
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β€œThe essence of cinema is editing.” Francis Ford Coppola
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"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that why is takes so long." – Steven Spielberg
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"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction." Stanley Kubrick
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"My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."
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"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."
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Point of View in Stanley Kubrick’s β€˜A Clockwork Orange’ #filmmaking #moviemaking
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The Importance of Theme: Filmmaking Lessons from Paul Thomas Anderson http://t.co/4zioil0iLn #filmmaking http://t.co/JF9FdDeRaf
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A day without laughter is a day wasted. Charlie Chaplin
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"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."
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"The end of a picture is always an end of a life." Sam Peckinpah http://t.co/ziBl5MMuWo
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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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"A film should make you forget you're sitting in a cinema."
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"The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself." Peter Jackson
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β€œIf it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.” Stanley Kubrick
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"Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script."
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Martin Scorsese Breaks Down the Difference Between Story & Plot
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"Negativity is the enemy of creativity." David Lynch
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"I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself." Francois Truffaut
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"The good ideas will survive." Quentin Tarantino http://t.co/HTueE8EDbY #screenwriting http://t.co/I1WV11rJOQ
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"I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40." Ridley Scott
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'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.' George Lucas
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How to Create Subtext: Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' http://t.co/OCLxzokO2m #screenwriting #filmmaking http://t.co/63h8578QkT
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"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated." Francis Ford Coppola
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5 Filmmaking Tips from the School of Terrence Malick http://t.co/evM7J6LjH6 http://t.co/g3gDnFV8gm
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Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
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#20thcenturyfox : Watch the new trailer for #XMenApocalypse , in theaters May 2016. @XMenMovies "
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Creativity is intelligence having fun. -Albert Einstein
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. -Mark Twain
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β€œA day without laughter is a day wasted.”
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β€œLearn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Pablo Picasso
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"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
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5 Filmmaking Strategies to Learn from Terrence Malick http://t.co/LzkJ8AZSfN http://t.co/lKVgavX8Rm
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#Filmmaking Tips from Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver'
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"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." H. G. Wells
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." Charles Bukowski
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"Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context." James Cameron
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Complete and comprehensive guide to every movie sold at 2015 #Tribeca Film Festival. "
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"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't." Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Filmmaking Lessons from Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' http://t.co/EyI9MFbcj9 #moviemaking http://t.co/8U0PksCtkR
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"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning." Billy Wilder
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"The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life." Sam Peckinpah
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Filmmaking Tips from the Work of Martin Scorsese http://t.co/Qv3W1bw6fy http://t.co/l04DDKr1oY
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"Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out." Paul Thomas Anderson
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"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!" Frank Capra
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"Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it`s up to us to try to change it." Alexander Payne #filmmaking http://t.co/Vd8daOeb
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