Filmmaker Quote by Peter Greenaway Download Open image “If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.” — Peter Greenaway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Filmmaker Stories Stories Writer Storytelling Tell Tell Stories Want Writer Writer Filmmaker Writing
There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have a purpose… — Charlie McDowell Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
What is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories. — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part. — Ishaan Khatter Copy Share Image
Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business.… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time. — James Mangold Copy Share Image
Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not. — Adam Wingard Copy Share Image
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
