Filmmaker Quotes · Page 12

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small…

— John Huston

I agree that a story is a story and you can enjoy it for what it is, but I think inadvertently a…

— Kabir Khan

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

— Jacques Rivette

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the…

— Sriram Raghavan

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

— Rachel Maddow

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

— Woody Allen

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I…

— Andrew Stanton

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning…

— Mark Hamill

Rob Zombie is such a filmmaker. He's so completely different from anyone else that I've ever worked with. He's so confident and…

— Danielle Harris

The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director…

— Lynn Shelton

I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me to save my allowance. So I bought my…

— Zal Batmanglij

There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was…

— Fernando Perez

Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm…

— Lucy Walker

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making…

— Christopher Nolan

I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure…

— Meera Menon

One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter,…

— Morgan Spurlock

I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something…

— Jose Padilha

The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to…

— Tom Hanks

I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule…

— Nick Broomfield

There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a…

— Tim Burton

I tried to take advantage of the fact that I was not used to making a movie. Movies are still so new…

— Joann Sfar

David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Sometimes, I think it's important to be a filmmaker first and be able to talk about whatever you want to after that.

— Justin Lin

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career…

— Todd Haynes

No matter how many films a filmmaker makes, there would be very few films that are truly great, where he has got…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

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

— Wim Wenders

As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?

— Anubhav Sinha

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

— Sidney Poitier

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

— Len Lye

My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.

— Sajid Khan

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film…

— Jeremy Davies

'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

— Paul Dano

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

— Arthur Jafa

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at…

— James Cameron

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than…

— Austin Kleon

One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you…

— Roger Ebert

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

— Antoine Fuqua