Filmmaker Quotes · Page 19

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

— Doug Liman

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I am a filmmaker and I have no issues with anyone, I am a director and I am just here to tell…

— Aditya Dhar

I don't know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.

— Bennett Miller

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

— Karel Reisz

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

— Evan Glodell

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic…

— Dave McKean

The only way a first-time filmmaker could have convinced or can convince a producer is if he has a fantastic script.

— Aditya Dhar

Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters,…

— Beth Ditto

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...…

— Paul Schrader

Lars von Trier is very, very, very clever about women. He gives the woman a space that I don't know any filmmaker…

— Chantal Akerman

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before…

— Martin Scorsese

Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better…

— Tommy Wiseau

I consider myself more of a film fan than a filmmaker, or I guess it's kind of a balance, fortunately. But I…

— David Gordon Green

From a completely financial standpoint, digital is starting to crack as far as an independent filmmaker's access to getting your story out…

— Shane Carruth

Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream…

— Catherine Hardwicke

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make…

— John Lasseter

Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place…

— Peter Greenaway

I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such…

— Elvis Mitchell

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy…

— Tamra Davis

I love independent films because I love to help, I love to assist, I love to pass along knowledge or experience to…

— Tamlyn Tomita

I do some freelance web design stuff. I taught a directing class for this not-for-profit organization here in Chicago a couple months…

— Joe Swanberg

I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically…

— Mike Cahill

There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with…

— Albert Serra

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.

— Tommy Wiseau

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make…

— Alton Brown

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

— Mike Figgis

I think I've always admired sort of dynamic filmmakers, which doesn't shy away from strong expressions. Which might be a little more…

— Fredrik Bond

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.

— Drew Barrymore

I know when it comes to TV, the writer is king, but to me, the filmmaker is king.

— Sam Esmail

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of…

— Brooke Shields

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a…

— Kathryn Bigelow

Sense of place is really big for me - as a filmmaker and as an audience member, it's huge.

— Niki Caro

Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.

— Rajiv Menon

As a filmgoer and a filmmaker, I want to participate and tell stories of woman and man that will move us forward.

— Jasmila Zbanic

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

— Joe Berlinger

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

— Lucy Walker

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

— Jim Caviezel

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that…

— Jonathan Glazer

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too…

— Sharlto Copley