David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice. — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is. — Dagur Kari Copy Share Image
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests,… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
I really appreciate Barry Jenkins as a filmmaker and the fact that he's always wanting to push the envelope and challenge perspective… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
I don't really like movies that are all one or the other. It's really about the play between both of them. Now… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
My job is not to make you happy. As a filmmaker and as an actor, my job is not to make you… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
Too many people believe in that [Alfred] Hitchcock thing that he only shot exactly the shots he needed for the dialogue he… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
New media has made it possible for filmmakers like me to get their message out. No big Hollywood studios are needed anymore… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
Even if you make a movie about a criminal locked up in prison, you may not support him as a criminal, but… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
I have so many really gifted friends, actors who I thought deserved as much as I did to get an agent or… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I think the biggest challenge was being aware of a certain audience that was going to see this film [lone survivor]. There's… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites. — Frederic Tcheng Copy Share Image
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Once, I got a chance to meet filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar. He wanted me to give music for his film but the project… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor… — Brad Anderson Copy Share Image
I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a… — Tom Six Copy Share Image
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses. — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind. — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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