Filmmaker Quotes · Page 21

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

— Stanley Kubrick

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

— Chloe Zhao

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.

— Jonathan Levine

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in…

— Joe Swanberg

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

— Roger Ross Williams

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

— Michael Fassbender

I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

— Melvin Van Peebles

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

— Matthew McConaughey

So to watch that production was just the most insane vision of a filmmaker being unrelenting in his will to create. Learning…

— Sam Pressman

I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but…

— Daryl Wein

As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied?…

— Lee Hirsch

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I…

— Bryan Singer

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If…

— Peter Farrelly

But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a "serious" filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo…

— James Gunn

As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just…

— Tony Kaye

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on…

— David Cronenberg

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness…

— David Remnick

Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown…

— George Lucas

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing…

— Russell Crowe

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more…

— Rudolf Buitendach

Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I…

— Sophia Takal

I like filmmakers where, if their film comes on and you step in halfway through it, you can recognize that, hey, this…

— Thomas Jane

My approach has always been to put 100% into the movie I'm making right now. I think sometimes filmmakers put too much…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a…

— Laura Dern

In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing…

— Andrea Suarez Paz

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

— Christine Vachon

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

— Angelina Jolie

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

— Michael Moore

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into…

— Nina Jacobson

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

— Farah Khan

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

— Richard Linklater

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field…

— Logan Lerman

Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a…

— Sylvia Hoeks

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

— Morgan Spurlock

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

— John Milius

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is…

— Robert Redford

In 'Sanju,' there are too many colours. Some other filmmaker could have taken a dark side to that story.

— Rajkumar Hirani

“Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of…

— Abhijit Naskar