Filmmaker Quotes · Page 3

Ridley is a limitless filmmaker.

— Fred Hechinger

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

— John Milius

I didn't want to get stuck being seen as 'an indie filmmaker.'

— Nia DaCosta

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

— Kevin Connolly

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

— Sarah Silverman

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

— Juliette Lewis

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

— Pamela Yates

A filmmaker has to have faith in talent.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

— Tom Hooper

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

— Ryan Phillippe

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Panos Cosmatos

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

— Katie Aselton

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes.…

— Sofia Coppola

Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd…

— Kirk Douglas

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start…

— Andrea Arnold

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

— Harvey Weinstein

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

— Dan Glickman

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

— Damien Chazelle

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I…

— Alejandro Amenabar

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to…

— Eriq La Salle

"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other…

— Paul Weller

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some…

— Tobias Lindholm

As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I…

— Pietra Brettkelly

People start realising that I'm a responsible filmmaker and I'm not going to run away with the budget or do anything stupid.…

— David Mackenzie

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great…

— Christopher Egan

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

The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people…

— Renata Adler

It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I…

— Katrina Kaif

It seems like the world is so fast to move its interest to someone else. When I think about filmmakers and actresses…

— Dakota Johnson

We are fortunate to have such an esteemed filmmaker join the Marvel family. The talents Ryan [Coogler] showcased in his first two…

— Kevin Feige

Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's…

— John Parish

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is…

— Haskell Wexler

The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they…

— Abbas Kiarostami

There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been…

— Ava DuVernay

There's no guidebook on how to be a filmmaker. I just try to do my best.

— Justin Lin

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

— Mark Rylance

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

— Peter Weir

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

— Peter Greenaway