Filmmaker Quotes

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

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.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

I steal from every movie ever made.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

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.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

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.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

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.

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

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.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

Film is a battleground.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

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.

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.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

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

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.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

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

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

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.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I don't really like movies that are all one or the other. It's really about the play between both of them. Now that I've said that, there's actually lots of movies that I like that are one or the other but it's just not for me as a filmmaker.