Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time. — James Mangold Copy Share Image
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level. — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it. — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Every filmmaker has a family to feed. They have children whose college fees need to be paid. — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
What am I doing as a filmmaker? What is the goal? To look for the unknown atmosphere that hasn't been described before.… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between… — Janusz Kaminski Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I moonlighted during a two-week vacation, doing a month's worth of work in two weeks; it almost killed me, but I wanted… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a really cool guy.… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now… — Storm Saulter Copy Share Image
What happened was months and months passed before I read anything where there was a filmmaker I wanted to work with. I… — Cuba Gooding Jr Copy Share Image
I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
We with Komplizen Film believe very much in the writer-director and in the freedom of a filmmaker. I think it's always good… — Maren Ade Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
I am a mere filmmaker. I am not even aligned to any political party. I vote for the Congress party, and I… — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and… — Malcolm Goodwin Copy Share Image
You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
In a weird way, I never wanted - I don't consider myself a very good writer. I consider myself okay; I don't… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do… — John Logan Copy Share Image
As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
While it is increasingly possible for filmmakers to find an audience on their own (something that is particularly popular amongst documentary filmmakers)… — Leanne Pooley Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were… — John Polson Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image