Filmmaker Quotes · Page 7

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

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

— Frank Capra

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

— Hany Abu-Assad

A filmmaker is in a very vulnerable position when their films are releasing.

— Soni Razdan

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

— Johnny Depp

To me, only the filmmaker and the role matters.

— Mohanlal

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

— Anil Kapoor

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

— Ed Wood

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

— Ti West

'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in…

— James Wan

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

— Bradley Cooper

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Conrad Hall

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

As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a…

— Taylor Sheridan

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it,…

— Vetrimaaran

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

In Austin, you work in anything that will pay and a lot of things that don't. The documentary filmmaker may also be…

— Keith Maitland

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films…

— Chika Anadu

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when…

— Agnes Varda

For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like…

— Jake Paltrow

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever…

— Susan Sontag

America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to…

— Hans Zimmer

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction. If you acknowledge…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Internationally and in foreign markets, movies starring women don't make as much money as movies starring men. And then you can blame…

— Paul Feig

I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as…

— Storm Saulter

Ever since I've become a filmmaker, I'm traveling the world a lot. I feel like I'm a citizen of the world, yet…

— Tsai Ming-liang

New media has made it possible for filmmakers like me to get their message out. No big Hollywood studios are needed anymore…

— Robert Greenwald

I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to…

— Oliver Stone

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked.…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

With filmmaking, I for so long was like, oh, I need permission to go out and be a director and be a…

— Kate Herron

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

— Alan Parker

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

— Jehane Noujaim

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.

— Spike Jonze

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

— Sriram Raghavan

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

— Susan Griffin

I think every filmmaker has his way of working, and I respect that.

— Ali Fazal

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

I'm not a filmmaker. I'm not a music producer by choice.

— Afeni Shakur