Filmmaker Quotes · Page 18

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a…

— Norman McLaren

I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things.

— Sissy Spacek

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the…

— Morgan Spurlock

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to…

— Brit Marling

As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves…

— Davis Guggenheim

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

— Benicio Del Toro

You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker.

— Steven Soderbergh

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm…

— Ava DuVernay

So, the next film won't necessarily be modern-day Albany, Georgia but we're grateful for the films we've made (with Sherwood). The church…

— Alex Kendrick

The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a…

— Marc Forster

I want to be with the man who wants to open a movie studio with me and make films for new, fresh…

— Drew Barrymore

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer…

— Nick Love

We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha.…

— Om Puri

I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a…

— Tom Cruise

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect…

— Elijah Wood

If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that…

— Alexander Skarsgard

I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he…

— Bun B

What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very…

— Alex Gibney

The best thing you can do with actors is collaborate with them. My job is to inspire them to give their best.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love…

— David Small

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime, and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong.…

— Katie Aselton

We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how…

— William Friedkin

It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the…

— Jonathan Adelstein

Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of…

— Ava DuVernay

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for…

— Melanie Lynskey

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and…

— George Hickenlooper

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct…

— Denis Villeneuve

My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else.

— Jason Silva

When a filmmaker like Deepa Mehta felt that I should work with her, I took up her offer.

— Shriya Saran

“I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.”

— Emma Thompson

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

— Steve Carr

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not…

— Melanie Lynskey

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

— Manohla Dargis

If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.

— Jihan El-Tahri

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know…

— Joseph Fiennes

Every filmmaker has his own vision, and when they write a film or characters, they see certain people in those characters.

— Nushrat Bharucha

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

— Sergio Leone

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

— Sadie Frost

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

— Werner Herzog

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

— Greta Gerwig