Filmmakers Quotes · Page 5

All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

— Roger Ross Williams

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

— Peter Morgan

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

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

— Mahesh Manjrekar

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

— Konkona Sen Sharma

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

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

— Joel Silver

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

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'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at…

— Seth Rogen

I wanna work with filmmakers that love, are enthusiastic about their process - about the process - about their process and the…

— John David Washington

The people of U.P. are very simple and grounded. They take pleasure in admiring arts and cinema. This is why it is…

— Hiten Tejwani

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together…

— Will Packer

Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the…

— Robert Drew

I mean I came up with a community of filmmakers, with Larry Fessenden and Ira Sachs and Pete Sillen, and we all…

— Kelly Reichardt

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow…

— Peter Morgan

There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot,…

— Pablo Larrain

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

— Nicolas Winding Refn

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

— Richard Linklater

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

— Sarah Silverman

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

— Boyd Holbrook

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

— Waheeda Rehman

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

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

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

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

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

— Spike Jonze

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

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

— Chris Hegedus

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

— Ava DuVernay

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

— Jacques Rivette

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

— Dennis Farina

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

— Bill Plympton

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

— Sean Astin

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

— Wim Wenders

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.

— Pierce Brosnan

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

— Win Butler

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.

— David Twohy

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

— Richard Linklater

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

I want filmmakers to notice me, not just as a glam doll but as a human being with all facets of emotions.

— Payal Rohatgi