Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
If I as a filmmaker take a very radical subject, which might not get an audience in the first week, multiplexes wouldn't… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
I love the studio system. Love that studio system and all their money. They're great; I think they're fabulous . You know,… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with.… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tried to take advantage of the fact that I was not used to making a movie. Movies are still so new… — Joann Sfar Copy Share Image
I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter,… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker]. — John Waters Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A filmmaker who is good today might go on to fail tomorrow, and one that is not so good today, might become… — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to… — Marion Vernoux Copy Share Image
There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image