Filmmaker Quotes · Page 15

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

— Alex Gibney

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary…

— Howard Shore

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

— Sam Raimi

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience…

— Joe Berlinger

Robert Zemeckis is a genius filmmaker who is an amazing individual. I feel really blessed that I've gotten to work with him…

— Charles Fleischer

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to…

— Marion Vernoux

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

— Michel Hazanavicius

There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take…

— Ti West

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers -…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in…

— Alex Graves

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been…

— J. J. Abrams

I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were…

— John Polson

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in…

— Mike Figgis

While it is increasingly possible for filmmakers to find an audience on their own (something that is particularly popular amongst documentary filmmakers)…

— Leanne Pooley

It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and…

— Scoot McNairy

Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being…

— Jill Soloway

For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes…

— Thom Powers

Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and…

— Xiaolu Guo

We didn't set out to make some polemic about life in the digital age, I can only react emotionally to story ideas.…

— Jonathan Mostow

I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and…

— Niki Caro

I'm really passionate about the song Sky Spills Over. It was fun creating it in the studio and I've been overwhelmed at…

— Michael W. Smith

A filmmaker who is good today might go on to fail tomorrow, and one that is not so good today, might become…

— Rajpal Yadav

I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big…

— Greta Gerwig

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

— Rex Reed

I don't like it when a filmmaker has an agenda and I don't know it. When the contract is not clear, that's…

— Davis Guggenheim

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

— Max Joseph

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love,…

— George A. Romero

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

— Spike Lee

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than…

— Paul Auster

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are…

— Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

— Errol Morris

I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].

— John Waters

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool…

— John Singleton

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my…

— Miguel Gomes

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I…

— Tilda Swinton

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is…

— Billy Boyd