Best 146 quotes in «filmmaker quotes» category

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

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.

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

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

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.

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

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

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

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

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

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was announced, we didn't even have a script yet. It was just being written. People announce things too soon. If you go to any filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - you go in their offices and there are scripts everywhere and there's about four or five of them you really want to make.

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

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

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

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

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

The things and the projects that I want to be a part of are not the ones that I get offered. I get offered a lot, but it's not what I'm interested in. So I have to fight very hard for the things that I want to do and to work with the filmmakers that I want to work with.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

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

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

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

When we bring the filmmaker, we bring somebody to help us elevate the material with those things, to help us do something different with all of those resources at their disposal.

Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a 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.

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

Being an artist or an author or even as a filmmaker, I bring my All to every project as who I am - artist, mother, daughter, wife, friend, citizen, teacher, philosopher, believer, and human. - Kailin Gow

Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.

IN HIS PRESENCE, I FEEL OUR AXIS RECALIBRATING. Where North was once —and for eons — the assigned pull of the Earth, in Sunny’s universe, all magnets drive us South. Or West. Or deep into the core because that’s more interesting to him. He’s a world-creator; he doesn’t walk from A to B the way most humans do, seeing what’s provided then dealing with, lamenting or pondering it. He creates what he wants and when you walk a path with him, you get shaped and reinvented, too. Not against your will, but more in tune with aspects of it, unfolding into the potential of a secret craving, fully funded. ~Amie, getting to know Sunny in The LOOK

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

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?

… this is my first language.” {on Writing}

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.