Fast Filmmaker

“Don’t lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of NOs to any YES. And that’s OK.” - Jennifer Lee

"It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to." - Jim Jarmusch

"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it’s an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion." – Karel Reisz

"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends & people the directors know." – Brian De Palma

“If filmmaking was intellectual you could learn to make a film from a book. There is something else going on. And that something else going on is fed by diving within.” – David Lynch

"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student." – Edward Zwick

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." – Orson Welles

"Make a ton of movies for nothing. And you get so much better at it after a while, you can write them and direct them and you know the structure. You just need to learn how to do it and you learn by doing." - Robert Rodriguez

Pain is temporary, film is forever! – John Milius

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -- Walt Disney