Filmmaker Quotes · Page 6

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

— Peter Greenaway

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

— Alexandre Desplat

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

— Mike Leigh

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

— Juliette Lewis

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

— Sarah Silverman

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

— Kevin Connolly

I didn't want to get stuck being seen as 'an indie filmmaker.'

— Nia DaCosta

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it,…

— Vetrimaaran

The kind of filmmaker that I am, even my darker horror films generally are still very fun. And I think that's important…

— James Wan

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

— Jeremy Davies

I was blessed enough to know that I wanted to be a filmmaker when I was a kid, the first time I…

— Justin Simien

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and…

— Rian Johnson

Dibakar Banerjee comes across as an intellectual filmmaker. That is a deception.

— Payal Rohatgi

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

— Werner Herzog

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

— Ryan Coogler

We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work…

— D. A. Pennebaker

“Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment…

— Abhijit Naskar

Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and…

— Thomas Tull

I wanted people to know that I'm not just a guy who does weird videos on the Internet. I actually am a…

— Shane Dawson

The concept of even having fans is still kind of weird to me. I really just feel like a filmmaker that is…

— Neill Blomkamp

Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away…

— David Lynch

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies…

— Georgina Haig

What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car…

— Ryan Connolly

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

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

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

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

— Michael Moore

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

— Ryan Phillippe

A filmmaker has to have faith in talent.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

— Pamela Yates

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

— Tom Hooper

I've always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

— Rithy Panh

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

— M. Night Shyamalan