A Filmmaker Quotes
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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
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
— Spike Lee
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 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
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'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
Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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
As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
— Ridley Scott
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
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
I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.
— Susan Griffin
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
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
— Alain Resnais
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
