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Filmmaker Quotes

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

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

4.
That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
Edward Burns

5.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
Rachel Griffiths

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

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

10.
I steal from every movie ever made.
Quentin Tarantino

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

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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

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I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
Roland Emmerich

14.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

22.
Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

23.
France has given us the best filmmakers and food.
Matthew Gray Gubler

24.
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

25.
I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.
Logan Lerman

26.
Film is a battleground.
Samuel Fuller

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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

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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

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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

30.
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
Jacques Rivette

31.
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.
Billy Bob Thornton

32.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
Conrad Hall

33.
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

34.
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
Wim Wenders

35.
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
Benicio Del Toro

36.
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
Patrice Leconte

37.
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

38.
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

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

40.
We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.
Jerry Bruckheimer

41.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
Ryan Phillippe

42.
I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
Roland Emmerich

43.
My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.
Spike Lee

44.
I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.
Dagur Kari

45.
I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
Jodie Foster

46.
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

47.
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
Stanley Tucci

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I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.
Pamela Yates

49.
The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.
Morgan Spurlock

50.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
Donal Logue