Filmmaker Quotes · Page 24

As a filmmaker, what's cool about horror is you're not really as confined as you are in other genres.

— Ti West

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come…

— Peter Gould

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is…

— Haskell Wexler

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

— Win Butler

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else. Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.”

— Bob Fosse

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

— Alain Resnais

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier…

— Lucy Walker

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around.…

— Aml Ameen

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so…

— Bruce Springsteen

I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as…

— George Clooney

Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is…

— Sharon Lawrence

I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and…

— Keanu Reeves

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working…

— Joseph Trapanese

Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the…

— Haile Gerima

I don't call myself an 'independent filmmaker'. Either a concept works within a studio system or it doesn't. If it does then…

— Andrew Neel

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people…

— Paul Feig

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me…

— Sean Penn

I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a…

— Antoine Fuqua

I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big…

— Zack Snyder

Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was…

— Antoine Fuqua

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey',…

— Jeremy Davies

I have a gut reaction to stuff that I read. Either it's a filmmaker that I really want to work with, or…

— James Van Der Beek

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the…

— Edward Zwick

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

— John McCain

My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you…

— Megan Griffiths

I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

— Jason Silva

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

— Ryan Reynolds

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a…

— Colin Trevorrow

I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a…

— Lynne Ramsay

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a…

— Neill Blomkamp

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

— Steven Soderbergh

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

— Chris Milk

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

— Mark Wahlberg

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I…

— Lindsey Stirling

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

— James McBride

Mani Ratnam was a favourite filmmaker because he did mainstream storytelling but always had a very real context or political backdrop.

— Kabir Khan

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a…

— Peter Greenaway