Filmmaker Quotes · Page 11

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

— Johnny Depp

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

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

— Soni Razdan

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

— Hany Abu-Assad

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

— Frank Capra

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes.…

— Sofia Coppola

Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd…

— Kirk Douglas

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

— Vetrimaaran

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend…

— Feist

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

— Wong Kar-wai

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

— Rupert Sanders

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

— Ramin Bahrani

As a filmmaker when you show your film to anybody, you want it to be liked. You want the reviews to be…

— Zoya Akhtar

I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be…

— Will Sheff

I don't want to be one of these filmmakers that hit you over the head with my agenda or my opinion. I…

— Ric Roman Waugh

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker…

— Joe Berlinger

I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had…

— Helena Bonham Carter

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a…

— John Landis

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man…

— Chris Hegedus

I had to see if I'm a real filmmaker. I mean, I have proven myself in movies and franchises, but am I…

— Jon M. Chu

The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of…

— Tony Goldwyn

I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film…

— Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977,…

— Spike Lee

I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't…

— Michael Franti

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

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

— Oliver Stone

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

— Kate Herron

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

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake…

— Christopher Nolan

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

— Peter Jackson

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions…

— Ken Burns

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films,…

— Bruce Conner

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that…

— Marion Vernoux

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start…

— Andrea Arnold

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

— Harvey Weinstein

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

— Damien Chazelle

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

— Dan Glickman

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

— Reginald Hudlin