Filmmaker Quotes · Page 13

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

— Rachel Maddow

I, too, started off as a short filmmaker - though none of them have been screened, it served as a practice session…

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor…

— Ira Sachs

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

— Jose Padilha

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

— Bennett Miller

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

— Peter Jackson

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I…

— Bill Paxton

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being…

— M. Night Shyamalan

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you…

— Kevin Macdonald

What am I doing as a filmmaker? What is the goal? To look for the unknown atmosphere that hasn't been described before.…

— Albert Serra

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between…

— Janusz Kaminski

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of…

— Wesley Morris

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things…

— Jim Jarmusch

I moonlighted during a two-week vacation, doing a month's worth of work in two weeks; it almost killed me, but I wanted…

— Mike Royer

It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not…

— Randeep Hooda

You get to actually make your movie. As a filmmaker, that's the dream. That's why you get up in the morning, to…

— Ti West

The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to…

— Tom Hanks

I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something…

— Jose Padilha

One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter,…

— Morgan Spurlock

I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule…

— Nick Broomfield

There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a…

— Tim Burton

I tried to take advantage of the fact that I was not used to making a movie. Movies are still so new…

— Joann Sfar

When filmmakers are kept from making films, there's a lot of different reasons why. Sometimes you work on a film and cast…

— Joe Dante

What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've…

— Amma Asante

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

— Francois Truffaut

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just…

— Jason Reitman

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going…

— Michael B. Jordan

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life…

— Anonymous

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

— Ridley Scott

If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I…

— David Mackenzie

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by…

— Ramin Bahrani

I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on…

— Ira Sachs

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

— Tom Hooper

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

— Ava DuVernay

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and…

— Tim Robbins

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

— Peter Morgan

My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

— Barry Jenkins

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

— Dexter Fletcher

Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues…

— Errol Morris