Duty Quote by Ryan Coogler

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

— Ryan Coogler

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

— Hany Abu-Assad

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

— Frederic Tcheng

That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next,…

— Gordon Quinn

I can understand when a filmmaker has researched something and a filmmaker wants to make a point... Of course, there can be different viewpoints.

— Kabir Khan

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

— Mike Nichols

It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do.

— Simon Beaufoy

To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually…

— Christina Ricci

I think that, as a filmmaker, you're always making the same film, regardless of how many different stories you tell. This is the case…

— Rithy Panh

It's tricky to ask a filmmaker to explain his own work; usually we're the least qualified to make sense of what we've done, unfortunately,…

— Stephen Gaghan

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

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

— Richard Linklater