Filmmaker Quotes · Page 14

No matter how many films a filmmaker makes, there would be very few films that are truly great, where he has got…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

— Len Lye

My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.

— Sajid Khan

As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?

— Anubhav Sinha

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

— Sidney Poitier

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the…

— Sriram Raghavan

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

— Woody Allen

Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked…

— Colin Firth

I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like…

— Lucy Walker

Sundance is incredible and has been very important for my career as a filmmaker, but it's also not the only route to…

— Matthew Heineman

I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part…

— Steve Antin

You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker…

— Charlize Theron

I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to…

— Nigel Barker

I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no…

— Jørgen Leth

I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…

— Patti Smith

I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie…

— Baran Odar

Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when…

— James Cameron

What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel…

— Christopher Nolan

There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot,…

— Pablo Larrain

You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented…

— Nicholas Ozeki

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of…

— Stefan Merrill Block

Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest…

— Martin Scorsese

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

— Rachel Maddow

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a…

— Mano Khalil

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a…

— Robert Greene

Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.

— Chris Hegedus

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

— Chuck Klosterman

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.

— Joel Edgerton

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

— David O. Russell

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small…

— John Huston

I agree that a story is a story and you can enjoy it for what it is, but I think inadvertently a…

— Kabir Khan

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

— Jacques Rivette

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

— Chris Milk

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I…

— Lindsey Stirling

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

— Mark Wahlberg