I'm not a political filmmaker.

I understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.

— Jessica Chastain

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

— Tom Hooper

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

— Adam Wingard

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

— Hany Abu-Assad

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public…

— Woody Allen

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

— James Mangold

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go…

— Lawrence Bender

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of…

— David Lange

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

— Tim Kaine

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

— Cate Blanchett

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's…

— Jack Nicholson

We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.”

— Davan Yahya Khalil

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan