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Filmmaker Quotes by Ava DuVernay
- I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second…
- Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
- I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a…
- I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A…
- As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the…
- Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat…
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- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster
- Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance… — Drew Barrymore
- When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That… — Drew Barrymore
- If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't… — Kathryn Bigelow
- I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder. — Theodore Bikel
- As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling. — Jeff Bridges
- I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make… — Alton Brown
- It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my… — Tim Burton