Best 146 quotes in «filmmaker quotes» category

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

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

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

Music takes us where words cannot.

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

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

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

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.

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

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.

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

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

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.

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.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

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

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

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.

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.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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