Filmmaker Quotes · Page 22

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

— Alexandre Aja

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a…

— John Woo

Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.

— Katie Aselton

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

— Mathieu Kassovitz

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

— Francis Ford Coppola

It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and…

— Francis Lawrence

Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all.

— Lexi Alexander

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

— Adria Petty

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my…

— Abderrahmane Sissako

I think religious movies are more of a subset of the broader historical trend, and also the fact that there is more…

— Dolph Lundgren

I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things…

— Rupert Sanders

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to…

— Peter Greenaway

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor,…

— Ava DuVernay

God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends…

— Marques Houston

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work.…

— Werner Herzog

Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers…

— James Cameron

The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results…

— Peter Joseph

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back and so I try to…

— James Wan

When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar…

— Al Pacino

I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I…

— James Franco

As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m…

— Ava DuVernay

When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was…

— Andrea Arnold

If you deconstruct the movies that have done well, Pixar-type movies that do incredibly well and make hundreds of millions of dollars,…

— Andrew Breitbart

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think…

— Henry Selick

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

— Alex Gibney

Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply…

— Errol Morris

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a…

— Ira Sachs

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know…

— James Wan

If we walk away thinking and having learned something, that as a filmmaker is what I set out to do.

— Kari Skogland

Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.

— Ritwik Ghatak

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to…

— Drew Goddard

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

— Johnny Depp

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

— Jaime King

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

— Edward Zwick

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

— Larry Fessenden

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

— Robert Zemeckis

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

— Doug Liman