Film Maker Quotes

31 quotes by 25 authors

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker. — Kathryn Bigelow
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route.… — Danny Boyle
Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I… — Isabelle Huppert
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. — Beau Bridges
Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today. — Andrew Sarris
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because… — Andre Bazin
There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker — Mike Figgis
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious… — Peter Greenaway
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of… — Steven Spielberg
My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal. — Rob Zombie
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always… — Jonas Mekas
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to… — George Lucas
My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while… — A. A. Gill
They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open… — Mira Nair
I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then.… — Rutger Hauer
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. — Peter Greenaway
I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a… — Lloyd Kaufman
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth. — Mira Nair
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. — Quentin Tarantino

Who Wrote These Film Maker Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 31 Film Maker Quotes as follows: