Filmmaker Quotes · Page 17

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

— Max Joseph

I don't like it when a filmmaker has an agenda and I don't know it. When the contract is not clear, that's…

— Davis Guggenheim

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

— Francis Ford Coppola

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

I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big…

— Greta Gerwig

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

As an independent filmmaker, the biggest challenge is finding the money. Whenever you have interest in a film project you need to…

— Harrison Smith

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently…

— Angelina Jolie

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating…

— Mark Webber

Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall,…

— Juliet Asante

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone…

— Joel Siegel

I actually chose to do 'X-Men' because I'm working with Simon Kinberg, who's also a first-time filmmaker who I met on 'The…

— Jessica Chastain

I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not…

— Ben Gazzara

I've had a lot of fun watching my husband's wonderful career as a filmmaker unfold and all the interesting places we've been…

— Susanna Hoffs

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

— Tim Burton

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 started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris…

— Abdellah Taia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— John Waters

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

— Paul Auster