I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that… — Jonathan Glazer Copy Share Image
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. — Doug Liman 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
As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The movie studios, they only like to make - I make a joke, but it's true - if the movie has the… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get… — Megan Griffiths Copy Share Image
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief...… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small… — Jafar Panahi Copy Share Image
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image