Best 146 quotes in «filmmaker quotes» category

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

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.

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

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

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of scripts. I know he wrote a hell of a lot.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

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

I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a 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.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

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

I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a 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.

I don't know where my next movie is going to get financed or if it will. I think every filmmaker is probably worried about that, unless their movie made a fortune. My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune. So yeah, it's scary.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.

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

I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be going back into studio filmmaking with a different sense of their own agency, and a different sense of the respect that they can command. When you asked the question about whether women want to be making big studio movies, the answer is almost always yes. It's just, how do they want to be treated? What is that experience going to be? And if you know the experience is gonna be shitty going into it, I personally am at a place where I'm not willing to punish myself any longer.

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

I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is a friend and who has made documentaries about controversial Middle Eastern terrorists has had trouble at customs when she travels internationally - but nothing like that has happened to me.

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

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

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

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

I love the studio system. Love that studio system and all their money. They're great; I think they're fabulous . You know, what it is right now is I feel like I'm still learning as a filmmaker, I'm still starting out.

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

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 very happy to be involved with great 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.

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 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.

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 steal from every movie ever made.

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.

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.