Filmmaker Quote by Darren Aronofsky

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.

— Matthew Heineman

I was just making movies to make movies. I was so full of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of lost the…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I was blessed enough to know that I wanted to be a filmmaker when I was a kid, the first time I realized that…

— Justin Simien

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

— Charlize Theron

I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was…

— Bill Hader

I had a blind belief in myself and became a music director and an actor.

— Vijay Antony

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

— William Monahan

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

— Kylie Minogue

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could…

— Ted Nelson

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

— Robert Barry