Acting Quote by Sam Mendes

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

— Logan Lerman

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany

One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals…

— Peter Berg

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

— Sriram Raghavan

Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film is like…

— Jeremy Davies

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very…

— Paul Greengrass

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

— Rajiv Menon

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but…

— Jason Reitman

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of…

— Felicity Jones

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's…

— Sydney Pollack

Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your…

— Gary Sherman

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

— Ira Sachs