I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them… — Jody Hill Copy Share Image
Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen,… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely… — Josh Lucas Copy Share Image
If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that.… — John Legend Copy Share Image
True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I… — Sophia Takal Copy Share Image
I like filmmakers where, if their film comes on and you step in halfway through it, you can recognize that, hey, this… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back and so I try to… — James Wan Copy Share Image
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
My approach has always been to put 100% into the movie I'm making right now. I think sometimes filmmakers put too much… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art,… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This… — Michael Almereyda Copy Share Image
It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
I think that's the problem, when you're a young filmmaker and you're starting out, you don't know people, you're easily lead, you… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling… — Joseph M. Kahn Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
You can tell so much about somebody by the films they make, and it's only while I approach this do I now… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee… — Tanya Fischer Copy Share Image
If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was… — John Singleton Copy Share Image
When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small… — Jafar Panahi Copy Share Image
I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends.… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want… — Emmanuel Benbihy Copy Share Image
If a white filmmaker is going to tell a story about a Black family, then because they get all the opportunities that… — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
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