Filmmakers Quotes · Page 4

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook

— Sean Astin

I want to work with amazing filmmakers and tell important stories, and if I have to audition to do that, I will.

— Kelly Marie Tran

I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.

— Spike Jonze

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

— Bill Plympton

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

— Dennis Farina

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

— Jacques Rivette

I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

— Ava DuVernay

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he…

— Ben Gazzara

'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 definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror…

— Jonathan Levine

Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have…

— Michael B. Jordan

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio…

— James Gray

I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than…

— Paul Auster

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a…

— James Marsh

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,'…

— Colin Trevorrow

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or…

— Barbara Kruger

Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I…

— Campbell Scott

We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And…

— Jan de Bont

When you have filmmakers like Justin Simien, writers, producers, actresses like Lena Waithe, who are people of color, they're creating their own…

— Teyonah Parris

Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is…

— Sharon Lawrence

I don't feel competitive with other filmmakers. I think we're all working to the same goal. When I see great craft, I…

— Greg Yaitanes

Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.

— Chris Hegedus

I was lucky to work with some of the finest filmmakers - Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Vijay Anand, Raj Khosla, Asit Sen.

— Waheeda Rehman

I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.

— Boyd Holbrook

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

— Sarah Silverman

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

— Richard Linklater

I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get…

— Danny Boyle

I think Raju Hirani and Farah Khan are the only two filmmakers who can balance the multiplex audiences and the single-screen audiences.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all…

— Sajid Nadiadwala

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you…

— Mark Waters

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

— Joel Silver

The industry and audience always expects filmmakers to do everything morally right. Why? We are all here to do business.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.

— David Lowery

I think most of the times there is a disconnect between audience and filmmakers.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I feel lucky to be able to work with such great filmmakers on such wonderful stories.

— Vicky Kaushal

Getting to work with good filmmakers and getting to play good characters in films is so special.

— Prateik Babbar