Filmmaker Quotes · Page 45

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot…

— David Lynch

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

— Rachel Maddow

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic…

— Neil Marshall

Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right.…

— Christopher McQuarrie

The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women…

— Geena Davis

It has a lot to do with just sort of trust in the relationship that builds between the filmmaker and the subject.…

— Liz Garbus

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

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I…

— Andrew Stanton

I saw 'A Clockwork Orange' when I was 11. When you watch 'Clockwork Orange' at 11, it either totally scares you from…

— Bill Hader

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

— Simon Beaufoy

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

— Robert Zemeckis

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost…

— Paul Auster

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

— Steven Shainberg

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way…

— Amy Seimetz

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all…

— Shiloh Fernandez

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 wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'

— Bernardo Bertolucci

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

— Mahesh Bhatt

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically…

— Mike Cahill

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers -…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies…

— Georgina Haig

I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers…

— James Cameron