Filmmaker Quotes · Page 24

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a…

— Neill Blomkamp

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

— Steven Soderbergh

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

— Ryan Reynolds

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

— Mark Wahlberg

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I…

— Lindsey Stirling

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

— Chris Milk

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a…

— Peter Greenaway

As a filmmaker, you've got to have a nose for what's going on culturally. You have to feel it. It doesn't have…

— Takashi Miike

The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating…

— Khaled Hosseini

You do sometimes have to work on things where you love the cast and you love the filmmaker, and the role might…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas industry, the…

— Josh Fox

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very…

— John Malkovich

What is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's…

— James Gunn

I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at…

— Spike Lee

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be…

— Scott Adsit

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction. If you acknowledge…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Internationally and in foreign markets, movies starring women don't make as much money as movies starring men. And then you can blame…

— Paul Feig

I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as…

— Storm Saulter

You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in…

— Karen Walton

Well, there's two things I have criteria for doing a film: The script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's…

— Dennis Quaid

Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people.…

— Woody Allen

Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good…

— James Berardinelli

Mani Ratnam was a favourite filmmaker because he did mainstream storytelling but always had a very real context or political backdrop.

— Kabir Khan

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

— James McBride

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four…

— Marc Blucas

If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that…

— Adam Wingard

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a…

— Terrence Malick

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is…

— Haskell Wexler

I think I'm the filmmaker who knows the most about strangers' unrequited loves and childhood sweethearts.

— Celine Song

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for…

— Sheldon Candis

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come…

— Peter Gould

As a filmmaker, what's cool about horror is you're not really as confined as you are in other genres.

— Ti West

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

— Alain Resnais

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

— John McCain

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier…

— Lucy Walker

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

— Win Butler

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else. Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.”

— Bob Fosse