Filmmaker Quotes · Page 10

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

— Ava DuVernay

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

— Maya Deren

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

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

— Isabella Rossellini

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

— Walter Salles

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

— M. Night Shyamalan

I've always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and…

— Tim Robbins

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

— Ava DuVernay

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

— Tom Hooper

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

— Peter Morgan

My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

— Barry Jenkins

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

— Dexter Fletcher

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Panos Cosmatos

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

— Katie Aselton

Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to…

— Lizz Winstead

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want…

— Peter Greenaway

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I…

— Bill Hader

I don't like filmmakers to tell people how they should react to their movies. I absolutely have favorites, and I have others…

— Christian Bale

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So…

— Anne Fontaine

Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love,…

— Isabella Rossellini

Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have…

— Michael B. Jordan

I think it's important for a filmmaker to know his actors, because you have to work so closely together and you have…

— Udo Kier

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

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

— Terry Gilliam

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey',…

— Jeremy Davies

I have a gut reaction to stuff that I read. Either it's a filmmaker that I really want to work with, or…

— James Van Der Beek

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the…

— Edward Zwick

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

— Antoine Fuqua

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

Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was…

— Antoine Fuqua

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

— Rithy Panh

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

— David Slade

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

— Johnny Depp

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

— Susan Griffin

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

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