Filmmaker Quotes

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

— Werner Herzog

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

— John Frankenheimer

No filmmaker is God.

— Rajpal Yadav

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

— Roland Emmerich

I understand the angst of a filmmaker.

— Gautham Menon

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

— Steve Bannon

Life is adventure, not predicament.

— James Broughton

Music takes us where words cannot.

— Henry Winkler

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

— Andy Wachowski

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

As a filmmaker it's a dream to make a western.

— Ti West

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

— Francis Ford Coppola

It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker.

— Taika Waititi

People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

— Bill Plympton

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

— John Cusack

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

— Fede Alvarez

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

— Len Lye

My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.

— Sajid Khan

As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?

— Anubhav Sinha

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

— Sidney Poitier

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

— Wim Wenders

David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Sometimes, I think it's important to be a filmmaker first and be able to talk about whatever you want to after that.

— Justin Lin

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career…

— Todd Haynes

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary…

— Martin Scorsese

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do…

— John Logan

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker…

— Anand Mahindra

A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's…

— Nate Parker

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so…

— Michael Caine

In a weird way, I never wanted - I don't consider myself a very good writer. I consider myself okay; I don't…

— Sam Esmail

I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as…

— Alice Lowe

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a…

— David Puttnam

With filmmaking, I for so long was like, oh, I need permission to go out and be a director and be a…

— Kate Herron

I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to…

— Oliver Stone

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked.…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977,…

— Spike Lee

I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't…

— Michael Franti

The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of…

— Tony Goldwyn

I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film…

— Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

New media has made it possible for filmmakers like me to get their message out. No big Hollywood studios are needed anymore…

— Robert Greenwald