Young Filmmaker Quotes

#1. 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

#2. My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#3. To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

Peter Jackson

#4. Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a Hispanic girl who disappeared in some desert.

Bret Easton Ellis

#5. 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

#6. Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#7. I really took filmmaking very seriously ... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

John Singleton

#8. Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

Friedrich Schiller

#9. Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all.

Lexi Alexander

#10. When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

Patrice Leconte

#11. A penny saved is twopence dear.

Richard Saunders

#12. I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.

Liane Balaban

#13. Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

Danny Strong

#14. I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

Quentin Tarantino

#15. I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

Tom Shadyac

#16. Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

Bahman Ghobadi

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

Gillian Armstrong

#19. Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

John Larroquette

#20. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

John Wolcot

#21. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

Werner Herzog

#22. The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.

Marc Forster

#23. The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it's unpatriotic if you're not for reducing the corporate income tax. We want to make it so American companies are on a more level playing field competing with companies around the world.

Jim Jordan