Filmmaker Quotes · Page 18

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

I tried so hard to be a more avant-garde, less narrative filmmaker, but it just didn't come naturally to me.

— Kelly Reichardt

You know, I think Chris Nolan is an incredibly intelligent filmmaker, and I think Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredibly talented actor.

— Ryan Kavanaugh

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start…

— Justin Lin

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning,…

— Mark Boal

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

— Hrithik Roshan

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part…

— Kevin Connolly

I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film…

— Quentin Tarantino

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my…

— Tim Burton

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies…

— Michel Gondry

I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is…

— Rami Malek

Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the…

— Ben Burtt

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will…

— Steven Spielberg

As an independent filmmaker, the biggest challenge is finding the money. Whenever you have interest in a film project you need to…

— Harrison Smith

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating…

— Mark Webber

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

— Niki Caro

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

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

Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a…

— Michael Madsen

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

— Charlie Kaufman

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only…

— Bahman Ghobadi

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I…

— Errol Morris

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt.…

— Elliot Grove

It's always nice to have another filmmaker to reassure you that you are making a good quality film.

— Rana Daggubati

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

— Lena Dunham

I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where…

— Zooey Deschanel

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

— Tim Robbins

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

— Errol Morris

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind…

— David Antin

I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team…

— Aurora Guerrero

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

— Romany Malco

From the perspective of being a filmmaker, you're just really grateful for festivals. A lot of movies won't even be seen if…

— Kelly Reichardt

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good…

— Kabir Bedi