Filmmaker Quotes · Page 11

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

— Steven Shainberg

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

— Rod Lurie

Alankrita is such a crazy filmmaker, and I loved 'Lipstick Under My Burkha.'

— Bhumi Pednekar

The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— Gren Wells

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

— John Schneider

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

— Lynn Shelton

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

— Anna Deavere Smith

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot…

— David Lynch

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate…

— Simon Pegg

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with…

— Ridley Scott

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

— Chika Anadu

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a…

— Simon Kinberg

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the…

— Sam Raimi

What I love about the filmmakers that I mentioned [Danny Boyle,Leo Carax], is that it's visual but it's also, you see that…

— Fredrik Bond

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm…

— Lucy Walker

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and…

— John Hurt

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator…

— Bruno Dumont

Going from a short to a feature is like going from crawling to flying. It's a big jump, really. Everything triples -…

— Aurora Guerrero

I think religious movies are more of a subset of the broader historical trend, and also the fact that there is more…

— Dolph Lundgren

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my…

— Abderrahmane Sissako

I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things…

— Rupert Sanders

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus…

— Ava DuVernay

I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure…

— Meera Menon

The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women…

— Geena Davis

Sidney Lumet is one of my favorite filmmakers. I feel like his approach to filmmaking was always so human. He was always…

— Derek Cianfrance

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…

— Stanley Kubrick

It's a very different experience shooting in 3-D because the camera rigs are so large. Everything we've become accustomed to in the…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

We had a great producing staff and great filmmakers, but for me, my mission , as a producer, was to make sure…

— Masi Oka

I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two…

— Malcolm McDowell

I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in…

— Leanne Pooley

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the…

— Jonathan Nolan

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

— Rachel Griffiths

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

— Wim Wenders

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

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

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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

— Todd Haynes

No matter how many films a filmmaker makes, there would be very few films that are truly great, where he has got…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

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