Filmmaker Quotes · Page 15

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

— Ryan Reynolds

I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a…

— Lynne Ramsay

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a…

— Colin Trevorrow

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

— Steven Soderbergh

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a…

— Neill Blomkamp

If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that…

— Adam Wingard

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a…

— Terrence Malick

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four…

— Marc Blucas

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss…

— Ruben Ostlund

The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film…

— Tim League

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much…

— Peter Jackson

I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint,…

— Todd Haynes

I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen…

— Peter Morgan

Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used…

— Richard Roeper

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well…

— Peter Greenaway

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different…

— Paula Patton

African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent.…

— Elvis Mitchell

Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love…

— Vito Russo

The weird thing is that, with actors, filmmakers and directors, it doesn't really matter if it's Robert Downey Jr., who's one of…

— Noomi Rapace

I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there…

— Xavier Durringer

I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for…

— Chris Hedges

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've been very lucky and fortunate to meet people that are very inspirational in their spirits, too, and not just as filmmakers…

— Peter Stormare

I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that…

— Marshall Curry

Mani Ratnam was a favourite filmmaker because he did mainstream storytelling but always had a very real context or political backdrop.

— Kabir Khan

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

— James McBride

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a…

— Peter Greenaway

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

— Win Butler

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else. Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.”

— Bob Fosse

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

— Alain Resnais

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

— John McCain

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier…

— Lucy Walker

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for…

— Sheldon Candis

I think I'm the filmmaker who knows the most about strangers' unrequited loves and childhood sweethearts.

— Celine Song

As a filmmaker, what's cool about horror is you're not really as confined as you are in other genres.

— Ti West

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come…

— Peter Gould

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is…

— Haskell Wexler

I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

— Jason Silva