Filmmaker Quotes · Page 21

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

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

— Peter Jackson

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

— Ken Burns

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

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

— Sarah Silverman

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

— Frederic Tcheng

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many…

— Curtis Hanson

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic…

— Neil Marshall

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the…

— Evangeline Lilly

To pretend like Hollywood is anything other than that is disingenuous. #OscarsSoWhite is trendy, but for women filmmakers and filmmakers of color,…

— Ava DuVernay

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors…

— Morris Chestnut

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're…

— Cameron Diaz

In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around.…

— Aml Ameen

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to…

— Rajkumar Hirani

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I…

— Steven Soderbergh

There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been…

— Ava DuVernay

Wow, I wish I could have done something like that.” That’s the thing, with other filmmakers, if I like them I just…

— Alfonso Cuaron

The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they…

— Abbas Kiarostami

In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself.…

— Bill Ayers

It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the…

— Johnny Depp

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,…

— Guy Maddin

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I…

— Mel Gibson

You can probably ask any actor: every time you start a new film, it's literally like your first movie. Everyone, regardless of…

— Fahadh Faasil

I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests,…

— Lars von Trier

As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little…

— Bennett Miller

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

— Dagur Kari

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as…

— Errol Morris

For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a…

— Tom Six

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor…

— Brad Anderson

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get…

— Danny Boyle

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

— Woody Allen

Once, I got a chance to meet filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar. He wanted me to give music for his film but the project…

— Ankit Tiwari

He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of…

— Jeff Bridges

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the…

— Jonathan Nolan

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

— Rachel Griffiths

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a…

— Simon Kinberg

I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in…

— Leanne Pooley

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the…

— Sam Raimi