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Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil… — Werner Herzog
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. — Richard Linklater
I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist. — Roland Emmerich
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is… — Paul Schrader
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane… — Kathryn Bigelow
The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined… — Wes Craven
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story. — Rachel Griffiths
It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can. — Mike Nichols
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a… — Martin Scorsese
I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted. — Steven Soderbergh
I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I… — Steven Soderbergh
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. — Adam McKay
A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a… — Sofia Coppola
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me. — Jacques Rivette
The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not… — Elliot Grove
There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we… — Kathryn Bigelow
It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it,… — Robert Rodriguez
Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare… — Laura Ingraham
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. — Francois Truffaut
I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use… — Andrew Dominik
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants… — Ken Burns
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one… — Ken Burns
I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the… — Rami Malek
There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me… — Tobey Maguire
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make… — Ted Nelson

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