Best 146 quotes in «filmmaker quotes» category

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

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

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.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

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 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.

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.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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.

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.

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

Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.

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.

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

A lot of people get stuck, like, "Oh, if it's made by a studio, it can't be independent." Often they link it to the source of financing, or how it's distributed, but I don't really know how you can. A filmmaker will take his money from anywhere. It doesn't matter.

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?

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

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

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.