Filmmaker Quotes · Page 22

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

— Chika Anadu

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with…

— Ridley Scott

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

— Lynn Shelton

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch…

— Darren Aronofsky

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate…

— Simon Pegg

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot…

— David Lynch

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you…

— Mark Waters

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so…

— Bruce Springsteen

I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as…

— George Clooney

Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on…

— Simon Pegg

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able…

— Paul Walker

When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I…

— Nadine Labaki

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an…

— Robert Rodriguez

I don't feel competitive with other filmmakers. I think we're all working to the same goal. When I see great craft, I…

— Greg Yaitanes

I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure…

— Meera Menon

I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema…

— Albert Serra

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus…

— Ava DuVernay

Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket…

— Gordon Chan

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making…

— Christopher Nolan

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long…

— Jonas Mekas

One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go…

— Djibril Diop Mambety

In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…

— Vincent Canby

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to…

— Ethan Hawke

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

— Joel Silver

Fiction tends to spread farther than nonfiction - and as a filmmaker, it's important to be cognizant of not perpetuating the same…

— Nia DaCosta

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

— Michael Moore

I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.

— Matthew Heineman

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as…

— Logan Lerman

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than…

— Austin Kleon

One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you…

— Roger Ebert

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

— Antoine Fuqua

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

— Howard Hawks

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film…

— Jeremy Davies

'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

— Paul Dano

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

— Arthur Jafa

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at…

— James Cameron

As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?

— Anubhav Sinha

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

— Sidney Poitier