I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
We've become so postmodern as an audience and we're so familiar with the style of horror movies that they all kind of… — Ti West Copy Share Image
But you know, 'Star Wars' is the movie that's affected me the most in my entire life. It's the reason I wanted… — Gareth Edwards Copy Share Image
My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days,… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
It's really interesting to observe each filmmaker's approach to filmmaking and I feel very fortunate to have worked with a lot of… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
I loved working with him [Justin Chadwick]. He was very smart in how he assembled the people around him and had a… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's… — Christophe Beck Copy Share Image
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor.… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical… — Jihan El-Tahri Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
A lot of people get stuck, like, "Oh, if it's made by a studio, it can't be independent." Often they link it… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking is very well-suited to 3-D anyway, so it's not like I'm having to… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Even reading my first bad review was an awesome experience. It was cool because you make something and not everybody's going to… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material.… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations.… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
It's a do-it-yourself kind of era with these pieces and bits of technology called iPhones. You can film your own stuff and… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
We see ourselves as filmmakers and as storytellers. We want to make films that move people emotionally. The most effective thing that… — Jon Shenk Copy Share Image