Filmmaker Quotes · Page 14

I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have…

— Charlie McDowell

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

— Alex Gibney

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary…

— Howard Shore

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

— Rupert Sanders

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

— Ramin Bahrani

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that…

— Marion Vernoux

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films,…

— Bruce Conner

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions…

— Ken Burns

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review…

— Brian Cox

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning…

— Mark Hamill

Rob Zombie is such a filmmaker. He's so completely different from anyone else that I've ever worked with. He's so confident and…

— Danielle Harris

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's…

— Michael Moore

We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted…

— Mike Mendez

When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim…

— Alexander Payne

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I…

— Andrew Stanton

'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

I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be…

— Karyn Kusama

It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and…

— Scoot McNairy

Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a…

— Michael Madsen

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists,…

— Vincent Cassel

Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being…

— Jill Soloway

We didn't set out to make some polemic about life in the digital age, I can only react emotionally to story ideas.…

— Jonathan Mostow

For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes…

— Thom Powers

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

— Peter Jackson

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake…

— Christopher Nolan

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

— Harvey Weinstein

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start…

— Andrea Arnold

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

— Damien Chazelle

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

— Dan Glickman

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

— Reginald Hudlin

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

— Mamoru Oshii

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

— Adam McKay

I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to…

— Justin Simien

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

— Katie Aselton

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Panos Cosmatos

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes.…

— Sofia Coppola

Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd…

— Kirk Douglas

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

— Vetrimaaran

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

— Wong Kar-wai