The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005. — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
Fiction tends to spread farther than nonfiction - and as a filmmaker, it's important to be cognizant of not perpetuating the same… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original. — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me to save my allowance. So I bought my… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was… — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
There's obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who's very excited, but I also think there's something… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective… — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Wow, I wish I could have done something like that.” That’s the thing, with other filmmakers, if I like them I just… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's… — John Parish Copy Share Image
I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket… — Gordon Chan Copy Share Image
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense. — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
