Filmmaker famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
-- Adam McKay -
A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
-- Alan Parker -
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.
-- Alan Parker -
It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.
-- Alan Rudolph -
I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
-- Alex Winter -
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.
-- Ali Liebegott -
I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
-- Alton Brown -
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
-- Angelina Jolie -
I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.
-- Anil Kapoor -
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
-- Antoine Fuqua -
Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.
-- Ben Burtt -
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
-- Ben Whishaw -
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
-- Bill Paxton -
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
-- Carter Burwell -
I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.
-- Christine Vachon -
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
-- Christopher Nolan -
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
-- Conrad Hall -
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
-- Dan Glickman -
I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.
-- David Cronenberg -
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
-- Donal Logue -
That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
-- Edward Burns -
But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
-- Evan Glodell -
There's nothing creative about living within your means.
-- Francis Ford Coppola -
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
-- Francois Truffaut -
As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.
-- Gren Wells -
Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
-- Jacques Rivette -
Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.
-- James Berardinelli -
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
-- James Cameron -
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
-- Jay Roach -
All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
-- Jeremy Davies -
We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.
-- Jerry Bruckheimer -
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
-- Joel Silver -
The filmmakers always have a great level of control.
-- John Milius -
I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.
-- John Woo -
I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
-- Jonah Hill -
I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.
-- Josh Brolin -
I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
-- Kevin Smith -
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
-- Kirsten Dunst -
For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
-- Laura Ziskin -
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
-- Lauren Greenfield -
There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.
-- Len Lye -
As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura -
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
I consider myself an independent filmmaker.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
-- Melanie Lynskey -
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
-- Michael Moore -
For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.
-- Michael Moore -
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
-- Nicholas Meyer -
Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.
-- Nina Jacobson -
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
-- Patrice Leconte -
You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.
-- Peter Weir -
You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
-- Q-Tip -
I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
-- Quentin Tarantino -
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
-- Quentin Tarantino -
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
-- Rachel Griffiths -
You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
-- Ralph Bakshi -
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
-- Richard Linklater -
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
-- Richard Linklater -
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
-- Rupert Sanders -
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
-- Ryan Phillippe -
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
-- Sam Mendes -
The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.
-- Sam Peckinpah -
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
-- Stanley Kubrick -
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
-- Stanley Tucci -
I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
-- Steven Soderbergh -
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
-- Ted Nelson -
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
-- Tim Robbins -
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
-- Tom Hooper -
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
-- Werner Herzog -
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
-- Wim Wenders -
I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
-- Win Butler -
Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
-- Alexandre Aja -
I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.
-- Chika Anadu -
As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".
-- Chris Milk -
I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.
-- Dagur Kari -
Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.
-- Duncan Roy -
Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you're intrigued, the work will grow on you and you're going to build your own interpretation.
-- Emmanuel Benbihy -
As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.
-- Hany Abu-Assad -
We didn't set out to make some polemic about life in the digital age, I can only react emotionally to story ideas. You hear an idea and you go, 'That's cool. I can see spending a few years of my life working on that.' As a filmmaker, you approach it like, 'OK. They're going to give you all this money to make this movie. It's like an electric train set you get to play with.'
-- Jonathan Mostow -
As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best.
-- Joseph McGinty Nichol -
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
-- Joshua Oppenheimer -
I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.
-- Justin Lin -
Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.
-- Kevin Feige -
I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a film like that. I have to be very clear in what I'm doing and where it's going, and be very disciplined about what I film.
-- Kim Longinotto -
The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.
-- Larry Fessenden -
As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.
-- Michael Glawogger -
I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.
-- Nick Love -
I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.
-- Niki Caro -
I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.
-- Pamela Yates -
The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.
-- Pamela Yates
