Best Filmmakers Sayings

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I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from… — Joel Siegel
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… — Ava DuVernay
Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. — Ava DuVernay
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… — Ava DuVernay
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of… — Paul Haggis
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them. — Rupert Sanders
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
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
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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