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Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended. — Asif Kapadia

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. — Adam McKay

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now. — Matthew McConaughey

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker ... I've gotten into some curious situations ... — Jamie Wyeth

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. — Spike Lee

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. — Robert Wise

The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed. — John Curran

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way. — Woody Allen

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing. — Lena Dunham

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life. — Jason Reitman

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything. — Adria Petty

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. — Darren Aronofsky

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. — Catherine Hardwicke

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible. — Marion Vernoux

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician. — Bahman Ghobadi

For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie. — Joshua Oppenheimer

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. — Michael Moore

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways. — Dana Spiotta

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies. — Joel Edgerton

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food. — Alton Brown

I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student. — Ira Sachs

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

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker. — Francis Ford Coppola

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

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker. — Peter Greenaway

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

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think. — Joe Berlinger

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

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work. — Ethan Hawke

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end. — Mark Boal

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

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead. — Mary Harron

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form. — Kevin Smith

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker. — Kevin Smith

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. — Ridley Scott

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' — Peter Jackson

Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too. — Pierce Brosnan

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

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes. — Francis Ford Coppola

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see. — Alexandre Aja

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. — Michael Haneke

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker. — Famke Janssen

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work. — George Hickenlooper

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story. — Q-Tip

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. — Ang Lee

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker. — Susan Griffin

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker. — Brad Furman

I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess. — Joshua Oppenheimer

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

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs. — Alexander Payne

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts. — Donnie Yen

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

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe. — John McCain

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style. — Alain Resnais

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. — Alan Parker

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. — Nina Jacobson

These guys at Fox knew that as a filmmaker, I could always tell different types of stories and each can emotionally connect to a universal audience. — George Tillman Jr.

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker. — M. Night Shyamalan

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker. — Mike Leigh

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

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

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots. — Walter Salles

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! — George A. Romero

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from. — Jonathan Nolan

I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly. — David A.R. White

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them. — Tommy Wiseau

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

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind. — Chika Anadu

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully. — Nina Jacobson

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. — Tom Hooper

I want to do some bigger films, so long as there's some sort of exciting creative element or a good filmmaker behind them. — Paul Dano

Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized. — Lenny Abrahamson

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

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it. — Walter Dean Myers

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

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker. — Kevin Connolly

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. — John Carpenter

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off. — Drew Goddard

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

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics. — Alex Gibney

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

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to. — Allison Anders

I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them. — Colin Trevorrow

When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker. — Laura Prepon

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place. — Simon Beaufoy

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft. — Colin Trevorrow

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

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic. — Doug Liman

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best. — Atom Egoyan

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it. — Andrew Dominik

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. — Michael Moore

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master. — John Woo

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. — Francois Truffaut

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

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about. — Jose Padilha

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker. — Feist

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great. — Kevin Connolly