Filmmaker Quotes · Page 47

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to…

— Ethan Hawke

I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on…

— Ira Sachs

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

Being a black filmmaker, one of the things I wanted to do with the movie is make sure I told it from…

— Deon Taylor

It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook…

— Haile Gerima

I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen…

— Peter Morgan

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

— Werner Herzog

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

— Ridley Scott

I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a…

— Antoine Fuqua

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

— Robert Duvall

There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been…

— Ava DuVernay

Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker.

— Scott Eastwood

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant…

— David O. Russell

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

— Errol Morris

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how…

— Logan Lerman

I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker…

— Rebecca Miller

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well…

— Peter Greenaway

So to watch that production was just the most insane vision of a filmmaker being unrelenting in his will to create. Learning…

— Sam Pressman

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely…

— Josh Lucas

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

— Ava DuVernay

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

— Logan Lerman

“Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of…

— Abhijit Naskar