Quotes About Young Filmmakers

#1. Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard.

Joss Whedon

#2. I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

George A. Romero

#3. Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

Reginald Hudlin

#4. 'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#5. A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Sofia Coppola

#6. It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.

Anurag Kashyap

#7. If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.

Jihan El-Tahri

#8. Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.

Campbell Scott

#9. I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.

Tamra Davis

#10. I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

Alan Rickman

#11. For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

Donnie Wahlberg

#12. I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

Sigourney Weaver

#13. Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Stanley Kubrick

#14. It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#15. The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

Rian Johnson

#16. I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

Jason Reitman

#17. Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

Morris Chestnut

#18. Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge.

Haile Gerima

#19. I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

Sadie Frost

#20. And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.

Ken Follett

#21. There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.

Jonathan Tropper

#23. It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

Melissa Rosenberg

#24. Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

Ahmad Alaadeen

#25. When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.

Gillian Armstrong

#26. When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

Woody Allen

#27. Every cell of my being is radiant with my love for You. May my earthly self align with this, May my human heart stop beating so wildly. May I remember, dear God, that I live in Your mind and I belong in Your arms.

Marianne Williamson

#28. If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!

Victor Hugo

#29. When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

Diablo Cody

#30. I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

Tuppence Middleton