Filmmaker Quotes · Page 5

The universality of 'Saaho' is what appealed to me as a filmmaker.

— Bhushan Kumar

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

— Bahman Ghobadi

I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

— Christopher Guest

I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.

— David A. R. White

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

— Nina Jacobson

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

— Alexandre Desplat

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

— Peter Weir

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that…

— Rod Lurie

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to…

— Mary Harron

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's…

— Adam Wingard

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

— Peter Jackson

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms…

— Maya Deren

When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker.

— Laura Prepon

If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

— Robert Rodriguez

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director…

— Alan Parker

I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by…

— Alicia Vikander

'Meek's Cutoff' by Kelly Reichardt - it's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch…

— Chloe Zhao

There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could…

— Anonymous

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting…

— Ava DuVernay

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be…

— Rod Lurie

I think we're used to the black filmmaker coming in and making the all-black subject matter. Especially at Sundance, they're looking for…

— Steven Caple Jr

“ But what else can that hypothetical actor-filmmaker do? How does he find meaningful human connection in a world of people who…

— Catherine Lacey

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way.…

— Aurora Guerrero

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

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me…

— Sean Penn

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people…

— Paul Feig

What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that…

— Terry Gilliam

If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good…

— James Berardinelli

After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm…

— Steven Spielberg

I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in…

— Karen Walton

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

— Mark Rylance

There's no guidebook on how to be a filmmaker. I just try to do my best.

— Justin Lin

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

— Ryan Phillippe

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

— Tom Hooper

A filmmaker has to have faith in talent.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

— Pamela Yates

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

— Juliette Lewis