As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films? — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema. — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends… — Marques Houston Copy Share Image
I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor,… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go… — Djibril Diop Mambety Copy Share Image
No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
I want to see more young filmmakers, and specifically filmmakers who have a unique voice. I wouldn't mind seeing less of the… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I love acting. I think that's the best job in the world, but I don't really enjoy the career of it so… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work. — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
I agree that a story is a story and you can enjoy it for what it is, but I think inadvertently a… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me. — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies. — Trieste Kelly Dunn Copy Share Image
I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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