Being A Filmmaker Quotes

#1. If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

M. Night Shyamalan

#2. I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

Adria Petty

#3. I'm a bit of a late developer, generally. But the good thing about being a filmmaker is you still count as young all the way through your 40s.

Lenny Abrahamson

#4. Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

Jehane Noujaim

#5. Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

Anna Akana

#6. I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

Jonathan Levine

#7. Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Lilly Wachowski

#8. I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

Ryan Phillippe

#9. Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

Alexandre Aja

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

Ira Sachs

#11. I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

Edward Zwick

#12. I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

Bryan Singer

#13. I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

Jane Campion

#14. In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.

Sarah Gavron

#15. It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

James McBride

#16. For me, whether or not a film has some kind of massive budget or is an independent film, or however it's getting made, it's always about the filmmaker and, hopefully, being a vessel for the filmmaker's vision. That's what really attracts me to projects.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#17. I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Mike Figgis

#18. 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 as a life.

Jason Reitman

#19. The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.

Lynn Shelton

#20. Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

Pamela Yates

#21. I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to escape for a few minutes.

Nigel Barker

#22. I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.

Ava DuVernay

#23. You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

Bruce Weber

#24. With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Bruce Conner

#25. Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

Abderrahmane Sissako

#26. In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the time to the helicopter. He's just this little bundle of joy in her arms. And it's 1969.

Bill Kreutzmann

#27. Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

Gillian Armstrong

#28. No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me along the way to be a filmmaker. And yes, I'm leading the music department kind of thing and that responsibility with the music is with me, but really that job is one of many.

Steven Price

#29. There's obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who's very excited, but I also think there's something very comforting in a director who's been around a few times. Both have their pros and cons.

Brie Larson

#30. There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.

Isabella Rossellini

#31. To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Mark Polish

#32. I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

Brad Furman