1.
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
Sean Penn
2.
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
3.
That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
Edward Burns
4.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
Rachel Griffiths
5.
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
Joel Silver
6.
The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.
Yasujiro Ozu
7.
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Christopher Nolan
8.
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim Wenders
9.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
Carter Burwell
11.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino
12.
Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.
Ben Burtt
14.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley Kubrick
15.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater
16.
I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.
Kathryn Bigelow
17.
As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.
Robert Zemeckis
18.
There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.
Len Lye
19.
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
David Lynch
20.
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
James Cameron
22.
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
Spike Lee
23.
I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
Quentin Tarantino
24.
I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.
Logan Lerman
27.
I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.
Justin Lin
28.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
Conrad Hall
29.
I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really feel like my voice is in the Midlands and outside of London.
Shane Meadows
30.
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
Ted Nelson
31.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
Jeff Bridges
32.
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
Jacques Rivette
34.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
Ryan Phillippe
36.
My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.
Spike Lee
37.
I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.
Dagur Kari
39.
As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
41.
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
Wim Wenders
43.
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
Benicio Del Toro
44.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
Sam Mendes
45.
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
Dan Glickman
46.
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
49.
There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.
Mark Wahlberg
50.
I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.
Melvin Van Peebles