The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in… — Leanne Pooley Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
If I have to mention one filmmaker who has deeply inspired me, and who truly made me want to be free, it… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You do sometimes have to work on things where you love the cast and you love the filmmaker, and the role might… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you've got to have a nose for what's going on culturally. You have to feel it. It doesn't have… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative.… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for… — Noomi Rapace Copy Share Image
You can probably ask any actor: every time you start a new film, it's literally like your first movie. Everyone, regardless of… — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a… — Philippe Garrel Copy Share Image
The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
It seems like the world is so fast to move its interest to someone else. When I think about filmmakers and actresses… — Dakota Johnson Copy Share Image
We are fortunate to have such an esteemed filmmaker join the Marvel family. The talents Ryan [Coogler] showcased in his first two… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story. — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind. — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
Fiction tends to spread farther than nonfiction - and as a filmmaker, it's important to be cognizant of not perpetuating the same… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original. — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005. — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image