Filmmaker Quotes · Page 6

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

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

— Sarah Silverman

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

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding…

— Donnie Yen

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 just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's…

— Dylan O'Brien

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have…

— Kirsten Dunst

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 understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I…

— John Waters

I'm not sure I would want to be a filmmaker, because I've seen how many people they have to go through in…

— Lucas Hedges

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes…

— Antoine Fuqua

Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to…

— Tim Holmes

I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to…

— Oliver Stone

I just trust the director and never overanalyse the script, screenplay, etc. You are just taking a bet at the end of…

— Ravi Teja

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

Well, there's two things I have criteria for doing a film: The script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's…

— Dennis Quaid

Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people.…

— Woody Allen

You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians…

— Tom DiCillo

What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car…

— Ryan Connolly

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

— Kevin Connolly

I didn't want to get stuck being seen as 'an indie filmmaker.'

— Nia DaCosta

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

— Michael Moore

Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.

— Johnny Depp

I think, as a filmmaker, you're always responsible for your film.

— David Slade

I've always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

— Rithy Panh

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

— M. Night Shyamalan