Character Quote by Jean-Luc Godard

I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

— Rob Marshall

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

— Alex Gibney

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances…

— Paul Di Filippo

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

— Doug Liman

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it…

— Rajkumar Hirani

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or…

— Charlie Kaufman

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of…

— Peter Gould

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

— Frederic Tcheng

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

— Frances McDormand

MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

— Francois Truffaut