Film Makers Quotes

31 Film Makers quotes by 29 unique authors

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as… — Jane Campion
The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat. — Unknown Author
African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. — Wole Soyinka
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — PJ Harvey
Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it. — Jack Valenti
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. — David Fincher
We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and… — Haskell Wexler
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of… — Gavin Newsom
I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in… — Charlize Theron
Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child. — Anthony Minghella
I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose… — David Puttnam
I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them. — Jessica Chastain
You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment.… — Leonardo DiCaprio
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger… — Mike Leigh
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a… — Martin Scorsese
History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. — Steven Spielberg
At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable… — Charlize Theron
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking… — Arundhati Roy
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers… — Wole Soyinka
Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye… — Eric Fellner
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction… — David Hare
Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the… — Ben Edwards

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