Best Filmmaker Quotes
424 Filmmaker quotes by 297 unique authors
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The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook
— Sean Astin
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an…
— Patti Smith
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It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond…
— George Lucas
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You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
— Q-Tip
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Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at…
— Gus Van Sant
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For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
— Donnie Wahlberg
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That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
— Edward Burns
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I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John…
— Ben Gazzara
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I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
— Alex Winter
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Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
— Eva Marie Saint
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I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’…
— Shiloh Fernandez
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Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all…
— Martin Scorsese
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I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20…
— Martin Scorsese
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Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
— John Waters
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It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
— Donal Logue
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that The Game is…
— David Fincher
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What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel is supposed to…
— Christopher Nolan
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What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films…
— Quentin Tarantino
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, Im aware…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film…
— Akira Kurosawa
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We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in…
— Ann Macbeth
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Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time…
— Michael Madsen
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The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it…
— Unknown Author
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Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."
— Austin Kleon
Who Wrote These Filmmaker Quotes
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