Filmmaker Quotes · Page 3

I'm a filmmaker. I'm not a politician.

— Louise Linton

I am a fearless filmmaker.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

— Quentin Tarantino

I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

— Ira Sachs

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

— Patrice Leconte

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

— Anton Corbijn

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

— Ang Lee

I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.

— Christopher Doyle

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

— Jason Silva

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 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

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

— Lauren Greenfield

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

— Lucy Walker

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

— John McCain

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all…

— Shiloh Fernandez

I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's…

— Christian Bale

I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my…

— Darren Aronofsky

I was inspired by Maya Deren because she was the first woman filmmaker whose films I saw. I also loved Fellini and…

— Chris Hegedus

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the…

— Dallas Campbell

John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it,…

— George Hamilton

I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind…

— Nina Menkes

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut…

— Harvey Weinstein

Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love…

— Vito Russo

I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie…

— Baran Odar

Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when…

— James Cameron

There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot,…

— Pablo Larrain

What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel…

— Christopher Nolan

You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented…

— Nicholas Ozeki

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of…

— Stefan Merrill Block

Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest…

— Martin Scorsese

As a filmmaker what you can hope to do is doing what drives you.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

— Edward Burns

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

— Quentin Tarantino

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

— Steven Spielberg

I've always seen myself as a global filmmaker.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

— Rob Marshall