Best Filmmaker Wisdom
424 Filmmaker quotes by 297 unique authors
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I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.
— Dylan O'Brien
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Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers…
— Paula Patton
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I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
— Ryan Phillippe
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I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's…
— Jay Roach
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And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your…
— Josh Radnor
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Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times…
— Richard Roeper
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
— Sam Raimi
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Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making…
— Sam Raimi
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Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth…
— Danny Strong
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I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
— Rupert Sanders
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I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and…
— Zack Snyder
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In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
— Melanie Lynskey
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
— Patrice Leconte
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Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up…
— Ann Macbeth
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Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots…
— China Mieville
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
— James McBride
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional…
— James McBride
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My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart…
— Cecily von Ziegesar
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There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
— Benicio Del Toro
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As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good.…
— David Puttnam
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Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
— Wim Wenders
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I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
— Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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