There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker. — Len Lye Copy Share Image
My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film. — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think it's important to be a filmmaker first and be able to talk about whatever you want to after that. — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
No matter how many films a filmmaker makes, there would be very few films that are truly great, where he has got… — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief...… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
If I have to mention one filmmaker who has deeply inspired me, and who truly made me want to be free, it… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether… — Anne Makepeace Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
It's a very different experience shooting in 3-D because the camera rigs are so large. Everything we've become accustomed to in the… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
We had a great producing staff and great filmmakers, but for me, my mission , as a producer, was to make sure… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
Sidney Lumet is one of my favorite filmmakers. I feel like his approach to filmmaking was always so human. He was always… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians… — Tom DiCillo Copy Share Image
What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car… — Ryan Connolly Copy Share Image
I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies. — Trieste Kelly Dunn Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small… — John Huston Copy Share Image
I agree that a story is a story and you can enjoy it for what it is, but I think inadvertently a… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me. — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work. — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a… — Colin Trevorrow Copy Share Image
I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
