Best Filmmakers Lines
204 Filmmakers quotes by 172 unique authors
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I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it…
— Michael Moore
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Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my…
— Christopher Nolan
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I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?
— Robert Redford
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I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
— Robert Redford
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I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and…
— Jason Reitman
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Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit…
— Jason Reitman
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I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on…
— Alan Rickman
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
— Tim Robbins
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I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors…
— George A. Romero
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I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put…
— Eli Roth
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I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest…
— Eli Roth
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers…
— Zoe Saldana
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It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far.…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their…
— Martin Scorsese
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Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of…
— Martin Scorsese
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There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in…
— Sean William Scott
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Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
— Joel Silver
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Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
— Kevin Smith
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Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.
— Wesley Snipes
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You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different…
— Ayelet Waldman
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I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take…
— Sigourney Weaver
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I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
— Harvey Weinstein
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Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get…
— Joss Whedon
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I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
— Donnie Yen
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If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where…
— Neill Blomkamp
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