Filmmaker Quotes · Page 13

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

— Howard Hawks

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going…

— Michael B. Jordan

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life…

— Anonymous

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being…

— M. Night Shyamalan

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

— Francois Truffaut

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just…

— Jason Reitman

If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

— Ridley Scott

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and…

— John Hurt

Going from a short to a feature is like going from crawling to flying. It's a big jump, really. Everything triples -…

— Aurora Guerrero

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator…

— Bruno Dumont

There's obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who's very excited, but I also think there's something…

— Brie Larson

It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to…

— Daniel Radcliffe

What I love about the filmmakers that I mentioned [Danny Boyle,Leo Carax], is that it's visual but it's also, you see that…

— Fredrik Bond

F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective…

— Rex Reed

I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared…

— Ava DuVernay

When filmmakers are kept from making films, there's a lot of different reasons why. Sometimes you work on a film and cast…

— Joe Dante

What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've…

— Amma Asante

I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be…

— Karyn Kusama

I want to see more young filmmakers, and specifically filmmakers who have a unique voice. I wouldn't mind seeing less of the…

— Andre Holland

I love acting. I think that's the best job in the world, but I don't really enjoy the career of it so…

— David Hayter

No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run…

— Jeff Abbott

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people…

— Mick Jagger

I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris…

— Abdellah Taia

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I…

— David Mackenzie

I, too, started off as a short filmmaker - though none of them have been screened, it served as a practice session…

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor…

— Ira Sachs

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

— Bennett Miller

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

— Jose Padilha

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

— Peter Jackson

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I…

— Bill Paxton

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films,…

— Bruce Conner

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that…

— Marion Vernoux

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions…

— Ken Burns

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

— Peter Jackson

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake…

— Christopher Nolan

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

— Rupert Sanders

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

— Ramin Bahrani

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

— Reginald Hudlin

I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to…

— Justin Simien