Top 100 Quotes About A Filmmaker
#1. As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".
Chris Milk
#2. In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Jonas Mekas
#4. I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
John Cusack
#5. Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.
Marion Vernoux
#6. It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.
Martin McDonagh
#7. What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
Antoine Fuqua
#8. I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.
Mark Boal
#9. Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.
David Lynch
#10. I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.
David Ayer
#11. As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.
Michael Glawogger
#12. 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
#13. I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.
William Friedkin
#14. Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.
Simon Kinberg
#15. I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.
Derek Magyar
#16. I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.
Drew McWeeny
#17. I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
Ryan Phillippe
#18. I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
Alton Brown
#19. I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
Casey Neistat
#20. My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
Robert Wise
#21. You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
Ralph Bakshi
#22. There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.
Mike Mills
#23. Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.
Ava DuVernay
#24. I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
Conrad Hall
#25. I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.
Joe Carnahan
#26. I have yet to meet a filmmaker who upon seeing her footage for the first time, didn't want to simultaneously bust open a bottle of Champagne, and move to another country to take a job as a bike courier. This is normal.
Roberta Marie Munroe
#27. An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
Alejandro Amenabar
#28. I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#29. Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.
Lenny Abrahamson
#30. I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#31. As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.
Aurora Guerrero
#32. A filmmaker has to have great vision in order to tell a compelling story that is both distinctive and stylistic. I remember playing all movies in my head hundreds of times before they were ever made. You have to see it in your imagination. It has to be real to you.
Nicholas Ozeki
#33. I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.
Atom Egoyan
#34. In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
John Carpenter
#35. As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.
Peter Jackson
#36. Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.
Steve Erickson
#38. An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
Johnny Depp
#39. I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.
Guy Maddin
#40. As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out.
Susanne Bier
#42. 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
#43. Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.
Tom Six
#44. I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.
Drew Goddard
#45. It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.
Tim Burton
#46. In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.
Jhonen Vasquez
#47. I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.
Lindsey Stirling
#48. No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.
Frank Capra
#49. I love the studio system. Love that studio system and all their money. They're great; I think they're fabulous . You know, what it is right now is I feel like I'm still learning as a filmmaker, I'm still starting out.
Katie Aselton
#50. One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.
James Franco
#51. I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
Tim Robbins
#52. If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.
Neill Blomkamp
#53. I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.
Tom Cruise
#54. Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read ... if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
Werner Herzog
#55. As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening.
Lee Hirsch
#56. I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
Nicholas Meyer
#57. Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
John Milius
#58. As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
George A. Romero
#59. I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
Damien Chazelle
#60. When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
Tahar Rahim
#61. Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.
Richard Roeper
#62. All I want is the same opportunities as the filmmakers I grew up admiring. But you know, I've had lots of amazing opportunities to do the movies I wanted to do. If I could write my future, I'd want to keep making character-based films that can make use of my voice as a filmmaker.
Tim Story
#63. As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#64. 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
#65. I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.
Paul Haggis
#66. By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.
James Ponsoldt
#67. As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
Ridley Scott
#68. I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
Tom Hooper
#69. I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
Lee Daniels
#70. As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.
George A. Romero
#71. As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.
John Lasseter
#72. For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.
Aurora Guerrero
#73. It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
Donnie Yen
#74. When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.
Walter Dean Myers
#75. I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.
Lee Daniels
#76. I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.
Bill Hader
#77. You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
Matthew McConaughey
#78. I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make ... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.
Tobias Lindholm
#79. I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.
Steven Rodney McQueen
#80. 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, because of the tunnel vision required to create anything over four years.
Stephen Gaghan
#81. Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.
Jehane Noujaim
#82. When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.
Isabella Rossellini
#83. I loved modeling. I absolutely loved it. I was so happy to get the cover of 'Vogue' - 23 times. I keep each copy. I made more money as a model than as an actress or as a filmmaker. In monetary terms, beauty pays more than anything.
Isabella Rossellini
#84. I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.
Lucy Walker
#85. In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
Werner Herzog
#86. Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.
Sharlto Copley
#87. I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
Jonah Hill
#88. I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.
Simon Kinberg
#89. I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.
Tobias Lindholm
#90. If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
Bahman Ghobadi
#91. Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
Michael Moore
#92. As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.
Gren Wells
#93. 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
#94. I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#95. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.
Darren Aronofsky
#96. As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.
Robert Zemeckis
#97. I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino
#98. You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.
Ezra Miller
#99. I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#100. I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.
Jihan El-Tahri
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