Filmmaker Quotes · Page 4

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

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

Attenborough's 'Gandhi' shook me as a filmmaker.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

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

I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a…

— Lynne Ramsay

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

Dibakar Banerjee comes across as an intellectual filmmaker. That is a deception.

— Payal Rohatgi

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

I was blessed enough to know that I wanted to be a filmmaker when I was a kid, the first time I…

— Justin Simien

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

As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of…

— Ryan Coogler

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can…

— Hans Zimmer

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French…

— Woody Allen

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

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's…

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

— Pablo Larrain

I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie…

— Baran Odar

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

— Martin Scorsese

African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent.…

— Elvis Mitchell

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of…

— Stefan Merrill Block

You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented…

— Nicholas Ozeki

I have a gut reaction to stuff that I read. Either it's a filmmaker that I really want to work with, or…

— James Van Der Beek

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the…

— Edward Zwick

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

— Andy Wachowski

It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker.

— Taika Waititi

As a filmmaker it's a dream to make a western.

— Ti West

I'm the most successful filmmaker in the country; what do I need PR for?

— Til Schweiger

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

— Quentin Tarantino

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

— Ralph Bakshi

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

— Frank Capra

Manikandan is a complete filmmaker and knows his job well.

— Vetrimaaran