Quotes about Filmmaker

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. Votes: 4

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library." Votes: 3

Casting is 65 percent of directing. Votes: 2

Pain is temporary, film is forever. Votes: 2

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker. Votes: 2

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Votes: 2

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen. Votes: 2

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. Votes: 2

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker. Votes: 2

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Votes: 2

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. Votes: 2

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. Votes: 2

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. Votes: 2

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. Votes: 2

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. Votes: 2

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker. Votes: 2

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors. Votes: 2

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly. Votes: 2

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now. Votes: 2

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all. Votes: 2

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker. Votes: 2

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it. Votes: 2

Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too. Votes: 2

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. Votes: 2

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft. Votes: 2

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film. Votes: 2

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. Votes: 2

Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. Votes: 2

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. Votes: 2

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. Votes: 2

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video. Votes: 2

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Votes: 2

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble. Votes: 2

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. Votes: 2

Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic. Votes: 2

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. Votes: 2

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. Votes: 2

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker. Votes: 2

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. Votes: 2

As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out. Votes: 2

There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hungrier standing behind you; there's always someone with more contacts; there's always someone whose grandfather or father is a filmmaker. I think your job is just to be there 100% - you work hard, and there are no shortcuts to success. Votes: 2

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity. Votes: 2

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen. Votes: 2

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together. Votes: 2

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. Votes: 2

The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it. Votes: 2

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker. Votes: 2

Everybody's a filmmaker today. Votes: 0

I'm only a stupid filmmaker. Votes: 0

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker. Votes: 0

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist. Votes: 0

I consider myself an independent filmmaker. Votes: 0

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know. Votes: 0

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. Votes: 0

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker. Votes: 0

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period. Votes: 0

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach. Votes: 0

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. Votes: 0

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing. Votes: 0

The filmmaker is not telling you what to think. Votes: 0

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman. Votes: 0

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker. Votes: 0

Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker. Votes: 0

Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know. Votes: 0

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender. Votes: 0

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany! Votes: 0

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. Votes: 0

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. Votes: 0

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker. Votes: 0

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy. Votes: 0

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker. Votes: 0

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king. Votes: 0

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible. Votes: 0

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about. Votes: 0

I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker]. Votes: 0

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense. Votes: 0

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker. Votes: 0

Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended. Votes: 0

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes. Votes: 0

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics. Votes: 0

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film. Votes: 0

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker. Votes: 0

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs. Votes: 0

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut. Votes: 0

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind. Votes: 0

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker. Votes: 0

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. Votes: 0

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema. Votes: 0

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker. Votes: 0

The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed. Votes: 0

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable". Votes: 0

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. Votes: 0

When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' Votes: 0

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up. Votes: 0

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell. Votes: 0

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker. Votes: 0

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work. Votes: 0

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories. Votes: 0

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. Votes: 0

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic. Votes: 0

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker. Votes: 0

I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there. Votes: 0

I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker. Votes: 0

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains. Votes: 0

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that. Votes: 0

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work. Votes: 0

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. Votes: 0

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. Votes: 0

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story. Votes: 0

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life. Votes: 0

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers. Votes: 0

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors." Votes: 0

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. Votes: 0

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker. Votes: 0

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation. Votes: 0

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking. Votes: 0

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see. Votes: 0

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style. Votes: 0

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals. Votes: 0

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach. Votes: 0

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level. Votes: 0

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can. Votes: 0

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about. Votes: 0

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way. Votes: 0

I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker. Votes: 0

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites. Votes: 0

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it. Votes: 0

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker. Votes: 0

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. Votes: 0

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound. Votes: 0

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them. Votes: 0

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. Votes: 0

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story. Votes: 0

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost. Votes: 0

You know, I think Chris Nolan is an incredibly intelligent filmmaker, and I think Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredibly talented actor. Votes: 0

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way. Votes: 0

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor." Votes: 0

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be. Votes: 0

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. Votes: 0

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing. Votes: 0

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is. Votes: 0

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. Votes: 0

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. Votes: 0

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research. Votes: 0

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being. Votes: 0

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best. Votes: 0

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations... Votes: 0

Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all. Votes: 0

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. Votes: 0

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe. Votes: 0

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him. Votes: 0

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything. Votes: 0

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money. Votes: 0

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story. Votes: 0

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. Votes: 0

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan. Votes: 0

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. Votes: 0

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make. Votes: 0

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning. Votes: 0

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways. Votes: 0

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead. Votes: 0

I would give female filmmakers the same advice I'd give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself. Votes: 0

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. Votes: 0

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue. Votes: 0

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker. Votes: 0

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work. Votes: 0

On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites. Votes: 0

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that's a script! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not. Votes: 0

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best. Votes: 0

I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting. Votes: 0

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes. Votes: 0

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point. Votes: 0

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV. Votes: 0

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that. Votes: 0

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes. Votes: 0

My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards. Votes: 0

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think. Votes: 0

I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work. Votes: 0

Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little. Votes: 0

I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little. Votes: 0

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great. Votes: 0

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end. Votes: 0

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary. Votes: 0

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker. Votes: 0

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things. Votes: 0

Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time." Votes: 0

Any filmmaker who has translated some personal vision into a film that actually gets shot and distributed is wildly successful. Congratulations! Anything after that is gravy. Votes: 0

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker. Votes: 0

I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student. Votes: 0

These guys at Fox knew that as a filmmaker, I could always tell different types of stories and each can emotionally connect to a universal audience. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. Votes: 0

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office. Votes: 0

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past. Votes: 0

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. Votes: 0

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not. Votes: 0

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party. Votes: 0

My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice? Votes: 0

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less. Votes: 0

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was. Votes: 0

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! Votes: 0

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them. Votes: 0

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives. Votes: 0

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life. Votes: 0

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field. Votes: 0

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever. Votes: 0

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. Votes: 0

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel. Votes: 0

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work. Votes: 0

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker. Votes: 0

I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters. Votes: 0

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience. Votes: 0

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story. Votes: 0

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it. Votes: 0

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport. Votes: 0

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that. Votes: 0

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker. Votes: 0

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries. Votes: 0

I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world. Votes: 0

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us. Votes: 0

It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think. Votes: 0

To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American. Votes: 0

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in. Votes: 0

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker. Votes: 0

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction." Votes: 0

All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads. Votes: 0

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility. Votes: 0

I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic. Votes: 0

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that. Votes: 0

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts. Votes: 0

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines. Votes: 0

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film. Votes: 0

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography. Votes: 0

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked. Votes: 0

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. Votes: 0

The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. Votes: 0

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance. Votes: 0

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe. Votes: 0

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement. Votes: 0

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale. Votes: 0

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker. Votes: 0

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated. Votes: 0

Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back. Votes: 0

I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that. Votes: 0

I've had a lot of fun watching my husband's wonderful career as a filmmaker unfold and all the interesting places we've been and people we've met. It's just been a really enjoyable ride. Votes: 0

I saw 'A Clockwork Orange' when I was 11. When you watch 'Clockwork Orange' at 11, it either totally scares you from watching movies, or you want to become a filmmaker. I was the latter. Votes: 0

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker. Votes: 0

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. Votes: 0

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen. Votes: 0

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark. Votes: 0

Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can. Votes: 0

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that. Votes: 0

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency. Votes: 0

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else. Votes: 0

I think we're used to the black filmmaker coming in and making the all-black subject matter. Especially at Sundance, they're looking for that. It's funny because amongst my filmmaker friends talk about this. Votes: 0

Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

It's really interesting to observe each filmmaker's approach to filmmaking and I feel very fortunate to have worked with a lot of really interesting filmmakers and they all approach their job in unique ways. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone. Votes: 0

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, "˜I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me. Votes: 0

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone. Votes: 0

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway. Votes: 0

It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second. Votes: 0

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented. Votes: 0

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me. Votes: 0

The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next. Votes: 0

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste. Votes: 0

Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money. Votes: 0

Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you. Votes: 0

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience Votes: 0

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film. Votes: 0

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in. Votes: 0

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been. Votes: 0

Now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky. Votes: 0

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back. Votes: 0