Filmmaking Community Quotes

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

If you look at any film fest, the setting gives it colour. Be it Goa, Cannes or even Berlin in the winter, the setting makes these festivals special and gives it a definition.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

What's nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That's the fun part.

I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

I used to hang out with a group of aspiring directors before 'Pizza' happened. We used to discuss a lot of stories all the time.

I think it's really important that you don't get caught up in the way the filmmaking community isolates you and the way your life ends up being.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

Going to UCLA, as far as I'm concerned, afforded me two things. One was the advantage of meeting friends and getting to know a group of guys I hung out with, was chummy with. All of us eventually had success with film. Making films, cutting our own little movies together, 3 in the morning going out and shooting stuff, finding gels that people had thrown away, making our own lights. It was like a frat house for film geeks, the Pad O' Guys. That's what being at UCLA afforded me.

I have an idea about building almost like a studio for some of the best Tropfest filmmakers, so they can come together and support and be given space and resources they need to tell great stories year around, so it's not just about the festivals. You know, the sky's the limit with this thing, and I'm still making it up as I go along.

I feel so part of the filmmaking community. It's amazing how much people support each other.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

A lot of my friends are struggling. A lot of my friends didn't make movies, which was really hard and sad. I'm good friends with this film collective, Red Bucket, which made Daddy Longlegs and The Pleasure Of Being Robbed. They're climbing the walls. They're all making cartoon booklets now, because they can't raise the funds to make another movie. But I think that when it returns, which it hopefully will, there will be another surge of energy.

Filmmakers are always in a bubble; along with our crew or writer, we don't really get to socialize with other filmmakers, so the great thing about Sundance is you can see many other filmmakers doing the same thing you do.

I have never behaved like a star kid, and since a lot of people in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries know my parents, they treat me like their own child.

Men starting out have so many options of filmmakers to connect with artistically and be shepherded by and collaborate with. I just didn't have an older, more experienced me to help me. So I hope all the women making movies now are aware we have the opportunity to be that to new filmmakers.

I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.