Filmmaker Quotes · Page 23

Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.

— Chris Hegedus

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

— Chuck Klosterman

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

— David O. Russell

Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.

— Joel Edgerton

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

— Antoine Fuqua

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

— Howard Hawks

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than…

— Austin Kleon

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors…

— Morris Chestnut

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're…

— Cameron Diaz

I don't know where my next movie is going to get financed or if it will. I think every filmmaker is probably…

— Nicole Holofcener

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic…

— Neil Marshall

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able…

— Paul Walker

Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on…

— Simon Pegg

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I…

— Steven Soderbergh

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to…

— Rajkumar Hirani

I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure…

— Meera Menon

Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket…

— Gordon Chan

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making…

— Christopher Nolan

I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema…

— Albert Serra

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus…

— Ava DuVernay

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long…

— Jonas Mekas

If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that…

— Terry Gilliam

One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you…

— Roger Ebert

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at…

— James Cameron

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film…

— Jeremy Davies

'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

— Paul Dano

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

— Arthur Jafa

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

— Len Lye

My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.

— Sajid Khan

As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?

— Anubhav Sinha

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

— Sidney Poitier

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

— Wim Wenders

Sometimes, I think it's important to be a filmmaker first and be able to talk about whatever you want to after that.

— Justin Lin

David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career…

— Todd Haynes

No matter how many films a filmmaker makes, there would be very few films that are truly great, where he has got…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

I think I'm the filmmaker who knows the most about strangers' unrequited loves and childhood sweethearts.

— Celine Song

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for…

— Sheldon Candis