Filmmaker Quotes · Page 41

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

— Lasse Hallstrom

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that…

— Peter Mullan

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

— Lynn Shelton

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm…

— Lucy Walker

It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as…

— Drake Doremus

Hong Kong people, they treat me more like a director, like a producer, like a filmmaker. If they recognize me, they treat…

— Stephen Chow

I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big…

— Zack Snyder

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

— M. Night Shyamalan

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

— Zoe Saldana

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

— Anton Corbijn

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

— James McBride

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

— Romany Malco

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

— Steve Bannon

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

— Peter Greenaway

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and…

— George Clooney

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

— Katie Aselton

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

— Kevin Feige

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make…

— John Lasseter

A lot of what I know as a filmmaker is because of hockey. That's teamwork, and being able to collaborate with people,…

— Gabe Polsky

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

— Dana Spiotta

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

— John Waters

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy