Filmmakers Quotes · Page 3

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

— Steven Shainberg

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.

— Dylan O'Brien

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get…

— Danny Boyle

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

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I was lucky to work with some of the finest filmmakers - Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Vijay Anand, Raj Khosla, Asit Sen.

— Waheeda Rehman

I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.

— Boyd Holbrook

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

— Sarah Silverman

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

— Richard Linklater

I think most of the times there is a disconnect between audience and filmmakers.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.

— David Lowery

I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad…

— Paul Haggis

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't…

— Ted Demme

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow…

— Robert Zemeckis

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

— Jeremy Thomas

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to…

— Nancy Meyers

I am blessed that I have worked with great filmmakers and, in that process, I have learned a lot. Be it Sanjay…

— Anupriya Goenka

Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on…

— Michael Mann

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to…

— Peter Greenaway

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,'…

— Colin Trevorrow

Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I…

— Campbell Scott

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've…

— George Hickenlooper

I don't feel competitive with other filmmakers. I think we're all working to the same goal. When I see great craft, I…

— Greg Yaitanes

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

— Sharon Lawrence

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and…

— James Marsh

I have an idea about building almost like a studio for some of the best Tropfest filmmakers, so they can come together…

— John Polson

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

The industry and audience always expects filmmakers to do everything morally right. Why? We are all here to do business.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you…

— Mark Waters

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

— Joel Silver

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all…

— Sajid Nadiadwala

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook

— Sean Astin

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

— Wim Wenders

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.

— Pierce Brosnan

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

— Chris Hegedus

People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

— Bill Plympton

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

— Jacques Rivette

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

— Dennis Farina

I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

— Ava DuVernay

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

— Trieste Kelly Dunn