Filmmaker Quotes · Page 3

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

— Steven Spielberg

I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.

— George A. Romero

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

— Mahesh Bhatt

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

— Derek Magyar

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

— Francis Ford Coppola

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

— Quentin Tarantino

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

— Guillermo del Toro

I think I have underperformed as a filmmaker.

— Rajiv Menon

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

— James McBride

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

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

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and…

— Rian Johnson

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

— Werner Herzog

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film.…

— Vikas Swarup

I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always…

— Noomi Rapace

Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in…

— Jason Reitman

I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, that's…

— Arnaud Desplechin

I feel like God has intrusted a lot into me and I don't want to sit on it and be selfish. I…

— Stephen Kendrick

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't…

— Kathryn Bigelow

The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even…

— Stephen King

I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my…

— Ava DuVernay

I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for…

— Chris Hedges

I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there…

— Xavier Durringer

The weird thing is that, with actors, filmmakers and directors, it doesn't really matter if it's Robert Downey Jr., who's one of…

— Noomi Rapace

Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love…

— Vito Russo

Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when…

— James Cameron

What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel…

— Christopher Nolan

There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot,…

— Pablo Larrain

Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest…

— Martin Scorsese

I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

— Ira Sachs

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.

— Fede Alvarez

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

— Jim McKay

People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

— Bill Plympton

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

— John Cusack

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

— Morgan Neville