Filmmaker Quotes · Page 22

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many…

— Curtis Hanson

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

— Frederic Tcheng

As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little…

— Bennett Miller

I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests,…

— Lars von Trier

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

— Sarah Silverman

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

— Dagur Kari

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as…

— Errol Morris

As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor…

— Brad Anderson

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger…

— Djibril Diop Mambety

I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn…

— Alex Hammond

I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts.…

— Takeshi Kitano

It depends on the story and the filmmaker. And it depends on the character, and the heart and soul of the person…

— Dakota Johnson

Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this…

— James Berardinelli

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the…

— Evangeline Lilly

To pretend like Hollywood is anything other than that is disingenuous. #OscarsSoWhite is trendy, but for women filmmakers and filmmakers of color,…

— Ava DuVernay

In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…

— Vincent Canby

One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go…

— Djibril Diop Mambety

I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two…

— Malcolm McDowell

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…

— Stanley Kubrick

It's a very different experience shooting in 3-D because the camera rigs are so large. Everything we've become accustomed to in the…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

We had a great producing staff and great filmmakers, but for me, my mission , as a producer, was to make sure…

— Masi Oka

The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women…

— Geena Davis

Sidney Lumet is one of my favorite filmmakers. I feel like his approach to filmmaking was always so human. He was always…

— Derek Cianfrance

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get…

— Danny Boyle

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

— Woody Allen

For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a…

— Tom Six

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of…

— Jeff Bridges

Once, I got a chance to meet filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar. He wanted me to give music for his film but the project…

— Ankit Tiwari

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

— Woody Allen

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

— Rachel Maddow

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the…

— Sriram Raghavan

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

I agree that a story is a story and you can enjoy it for what it is, but I think inadvertently a…

— Kabir Khan

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small…

— John Huston

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

— Jacques Rivette

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a…

— Mano Khalil

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a…

— Robert Greene