Filmmaker Quotes · Page 11

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

— John Updike

I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.

— Robert Zemeckis

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

— Michael Haneke

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

— Steven Shainberg

Alankrita is such a crazy filmmaker, and I loved 'Lipstick Under My Burkha.'

— Bhumi Pednekar

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

— Rod Lurie

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

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

As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor…

— Brad Anderson

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

— Woody Allen

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

— Dagur Kari

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as…

— Errol Morris

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

— Sarah Silverman

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

— Frederic Tcheng

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of…

— Wesley Morris

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things…

— Jim Jarmusch

You get to actually make your movie. As a filmmaker, that's the dream. That's why you get up in the morning, to…

— Ti West

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review…

— Brian Cox

It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not…

— Randeep Hooda

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's…

— Michael Moore

We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted…

— Mike Mendez

When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim…

— Alexander Payne

We had a great producing staff and great filmmakers, but for me, my mission , as a producer, was to make sure…

— Masi Oka

I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two…

— Malcolm McDowell

One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go…

— Djibril Diop Mambety

In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…

— Vincent Canby

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long…

— Jonas Mekas

I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema…

— Albert Serra

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus…

— Ava DuVernay

Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket…

— Gordon Chan

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many…

— Curtis Hanson

I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests,…

— Lars von Trier

As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little…

— Bennett Miller

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

— Chuck Klosterman

Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.

— Joel Edgerton

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

— David O. Russell

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a…

— Robert Greene

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a…

— Mano Khalil

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

— Chris Hegedus