Filmmaker Quote by Mary Harron

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I…

— Jason Reitman

As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.

— Taylor Sheridan

My films are inquiries. I've chopped down all the signposts, I really resist taking moral positions.

— Bennett Miller

Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.

— Rajiv Menon

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna…

— Patti Smith

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing…

— Damian Lewis

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

— George Hickenlooper

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a…

— Aparna Sen

You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair…

— Lauren Greenfield

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think…

— George A. Romero

I've come to really believe that I have something to offer as a filmmaker, that goes beyond what I had to offer as an…

— Kasi Lemmons