Best 146 quotes in «filmmaker quotes» category

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

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a 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.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

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.

I steal from every movie ever made.

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

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

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.

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly.

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

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

I tried to take advantage of the fact that I was not used to making a movie. Movies are still so new to me so I had to use my fascination, and the fact that I'm almost a teenage filmmaker, to my advantage. And that's why I don't pretend to have made a good movie... but one that people are able to feel the love I have for this industry.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can. You can push it through, and you can hire the right people.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

Music takes us where words cannot.

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

Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

My approach has always been to put 100% into the movie I'm making right now. I think sometimes filmmakers put too much thought into the grand franchise they're going to build. And guess what? If the first movie doesn't work there is no franchise, so I'm always concentrated on making the best, best possible movie right now.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

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

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a 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.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Rob Zombie is such a filmmaker. He's so completely different from anyone else that I've ever worked with. He's so confident and laid back and so trusting that you could just show up and do whatever you want to do. He's really good about pulling an amazing cast together that he doesn't have to tell them to do anything.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

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.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

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

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.