Top 20 Filmmaking Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes

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

— Quentin Tarantino

Also featured in: School Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

3. “If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

— Stanley Kubrick

4. “I love editing. It’s one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.”

— Steven Spielberg

5. “The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.”

— David O. Selznick

6. “The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.”

— Peter Jackson

7. “A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.”

— Christopher Nolan

8. “I'll be back.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Famous Quotes, Short Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

9. “Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Quotes About Trying

10. “Story is king. Everything else is slave to story.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Important Quotes

11. “May the Force be with you.”

— George Lucas

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Character Quotes, Space Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Hero Quotes

12. “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Creative Quotes, Marketing Quotes

13. “Go ahead, make my day.”

— Clint Eastwood

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Epic Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes

14. “All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”

— Robert McKee

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes

15. “I’m only a stupid filmmaker.”

— Roland Emmerich

16. “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

— Orson Welles

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes

17. “Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”

— Slavoj Žižek

Also featured in: Desire Quotes

18. “You don’t build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Innovation Quotes

19. “I didn’t go to film school, I went to films.”

— Quentin Tarantino

Also featured in: School Quotes

20. “I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.”

— Walt Disney

21. “Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.”

— Steven Spielberg

22. “Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.”

— Robert Bresson

23. “If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.”

— Quentin Tarantino

Also featured in: Different Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes

24. “I steal from every movie ever made.”

— Quentin Tarantino