Filmmaker Quotes · Page 15

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend…

— Feist

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than…

— Paul Auster

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love,…

— George A. Romero

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

— Spike Lee

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool…

— John Singleton

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are…

— Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

— Errol Morris

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker…

— Anand Mahindra

A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's…

— Nate Parker

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so…

— Michael Caine

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary…

— Martin Scorsese

I am a mere filmmaker. I am not even aligned to any political party. I vote for the Congress party, and I…

— Mahesh Bhatt

By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and…

— James Ponsoldt

I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and…

— Malcolm Goodwin

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no…

— Peter Bogdanovich

Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and…

— Xiaolu Guo

I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and…

— Niki Caro

I've been exploring a lot of different avenues with a number of very different and very, very exciting filmmakers and writers. That's…

— Dan Stevens

If you want a film and they don't want you, sometimes you have to go fight for it. Sometimes that ends up…

— Ryan Reynolds

We were lucky if we got two takes out of a scene in the Rock 'N' Roll High School. But the Ramones…

— P. J. Soles

[ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone…

— Abdellatif Kechiche

Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman…

— Ethan Hawke

3D is very exciting. I love it. I'm a complete convert. Everything for me, from now on, is 3D. I'm completely convinced…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].

— John Waters

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is…

— Billy Boyd

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my…

— Miguel Gomes

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I…

— Tilda Swinton

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a…

— Fede Alvarez

If I as a filmmaker take a very radical subject, which might not get an audience in the first week, multiplexes wouldn't…

— Kiran Rao

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

— Satyajit Ray

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience…

— Joe Berlinger

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

— Sam Raimi

There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

— Michel Hazanavicius

Robert Zemeckis is a genius filmmaker who is an amazing individual. I feel really blessed that I've gotten to work with him…

— Charles Fleischer

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to…

— Marion Vernoux

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

— Rex Reed

A filmmaker who is good today might go on to fail tomorrow, and one that is not so good today, might become…

— Rajpal Yadav