Filmmaker famous quotes

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
-- Adam McKay

#Directors #My Favorite #Filmmaker

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
-- Alan Parker

#Vision #Filmmaker #Evolve

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

#Directors #Different #Filmmaker

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.
-- Alan Rudolph

#Lasts #Next #Filmmaker

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
-- Alex Winter

#Thinking #Want #Filmmaker

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

#Grateful #Poet #Filmmaker

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

#Film #Filmmaker

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
-- Angelina Jolie

#War #Human Nature #Filmmaker

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.
-- Anil Kapoor

#Filmmaker

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Documentaries #Resources #Filmmaker

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
-- Antoine Fuqua

#Forget #Filmmaker #Who You Are

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

#Special #Motion Pictures #Filmmaker

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
-- Ben Whishaw

#Stories #Human Nature #Filmmaker

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Latin #Latino #Filmmaker

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
-- Bill Paxton

#Levels #Parody #Filmmaker

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Novelists #Filmmaker

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
-- Carter Burwell

#Lobbying #Projects #Filmmaker

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.
-- Christine Vachon

#Trying #Stories #Filmmaker

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

#Understanding #Imagery #Filmmaker

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
-- Conrad Hall

#Thinking #Directors #Filmmaker

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

#Independent #Intellectual #Filmmaker

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.
-- David Cronenberg

#Writing #Moral #Filmmaker

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
-- Donal Logue

#Mistake #Cutting #Filmmaker

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
-- Edward Burns

#Advice #Filmmaker #Supermodel

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
-- Evan Glodell

#Actors #Wonder #Filmmaker

There's nothing creative about living within your means.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Mean #Creative #Filmmaker

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

#Would Be #Firsts #Filmmaker

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.
-- Gren Wells

#Want #Filmmaker #Audience

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.
-- Guillermo del Toro

#Looks #Filmmaker

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
-- Harvey Weinstein

#Years #France #Filmmaker

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
-- Jacques Rivette

#Odd #Filmmaker

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

#Sight #Filmmaker #Spread

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

#Directors #Filmmaker

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

#Film #Filmmaker #Really Great

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Taken #Desire #Filmmaker

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.
-- Jerry Bruckheimer

#Lines #Filmmaker #Draws

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
-- Joel Silver

#Responsibility #Unique #Filmmaker

Casting is 65 percent of directing.
-- John Frankenheimer

#Casting #Filmmaker

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.
-- John Milius

#Levels #Filmmaker

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

#Hard Work #Masters #Filmmaker

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
-- Jonah Hill

#Stars #Actors #Filmmaker

I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.
-- Josh Brolin

#Filmmaker #Very Happy #Great Film

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

#Thinking #Waiting #Filmmaker

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

#Odd #Reason #Filmmaker

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
-- Kirsten Dunst

#Scripts #Mediocre #Filmmaker

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
-- Laura Ziskin

#Excited #Projects #Filmmaker

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
-- Lauren Greenfield

#Documentaries #Photographer #Filmmaker

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.
-- Len Lye

#Spirit #Film #Filmmaker

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

#Asking #Wow #Filmmaker

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Voice #Filmmaker #Materials

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Independent #Filmmaker

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

#Book #Horror #Filmmaker

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

#Thinking #Actors #Filmmaker

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

#School #Michigan #Filmmaker

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.
-- Michael Moore

#Documentaries #Filmmaker #Wells

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

#Differences #Made #Filmmaker

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Producers #Filmmaker

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
-- Patrice Leconte

#Ideas #Young #Filmmaker

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.
-- Peter Weir

#Certain #Sensitivity #Filmmaker

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
-- Q-Tip

#Stories #Sound #Filmmaker

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

#Italian #Might #Filmmaker

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
-- Quentin Tarantino

#People #Different #Filmmaker

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
-- Rachel Griffiths

#Actors #Stories #Filmmaker

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
-- Ralph Bakshi

#Filmmaker

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
-- Richard Linklater

#Thinking #Film #Filmmaker

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
-- Richard Linklater

#Film #Paint #Filmmaker

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
-- Rupert Sanders

#Filmmaker #Feels

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#One Day #Filmmaker

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

#Believe #Good Enough #Filmmaker

The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.
-- Sam Peckinpah

#Ends #Filmmaker

Film is a battleground.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Film #Filmmaker

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.
-- Spike Lee

#Cousin #Filmmaker #My Cousin

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
-- Stanley Kubrick

#Novelists #Paper #Filmmaker

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Filmmaker #Practicals

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
-- Steven Soderbergh

#Way #Filmmaker #Gifted

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

#Intellectual #Fields #Filmmaker

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

#Thinking #Credit #Filmmaker

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
-- Tom Hooper

#Would Be #Clarity #Filmmaker

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

#Filmmaking #Filmmaker

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
-- Wim Wenders

#Sometimes #Critics #Filmmaker

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
-- Win Butler

#Thinking #Musician #Filmmaker

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
-- Alexandre Aja

#Thinking #Trying #Filmmaker

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.
-- Chika Anadu

#Periods #Filmmaker #Describe Myself

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".
-- Chris Milk

#Team #Filmmaker #Discussion

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.
-- Dagur Kari

#Thinking #Filmmaking #Filmmaker

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.
-- Duncan Roy

#Age #Filmmaker #Old Relationship

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

#Filmmaker #Intrigued #Audience

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.
-- Hany Abu-Assad

#Reality #Filmmaker

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

#Giving #Age #Filmmaker

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

#Trying #Film #Filmmaker

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
-- Joshua Oppenheimer

#Forgiving #Said #Filmmaker

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

#Issues #Pertinent #Filmmaker

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.
-- Kevin Feige

#People #Anxious #Filmmaker

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

#Mystery #Film #Filmmaker

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.
-- Larry Fessenden

#Growing Up #Worst #Filmmaker

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.
-- Michael Glawogger

#Beautiful #Filmmaker #Platonic

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

#Thinking #Politician #Filmmaker

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

#Parent #Good Parent #Filmmaker

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.
-- Pamela Yates

#Artist #Rights #Filmmaker

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

#Digital Revolution #Filmmaker #Effects