Filmmaker Quotes · Page 28

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

— Dermot Mulroney

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

— Gordon Chan

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry;…

— Jonas Mekas

Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was…

— Antoine Fuqua

Too many people believe in that [Alfred] Hitchcock thing that he only shot exactly the shots he needed for the dialogue he…

— Jason Reitman

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand…

— Martin Scorsese

Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's…

— Ivan Tverdovsky

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire…

— James Franco

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness…

— David Remnick

When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to…

— Haile Gerima

I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun.…

— Sigourney Weaver

I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make…

— Curtis Hanson

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

— Logan Lerman

I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow…

— Hilary Swank

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

— Isabella Rossellini

Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit…

— Michael J. Bassett

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I…

— Michael Giacchino

I think I'm really drawn to filmmakers and artists who are kind of pathologically incapable of thinking straightforward about film, and about…

— Jeremy Davies

I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.

— Christopher Doyle

I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really…

— Shane Meadows

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

— Edward Zwick

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of…

— Wes Craven

One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have…

— Colin Farrell

Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the…

— Haile Gerima