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Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
— Asif Kapadia
Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.
— Dawn Garcia
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
— Adam McKay
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
— Spike Lee
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 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
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
— M. Night Shyamalan
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 don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
— Quentin Tarantino
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
You know, I think Chris Nolan is an incredibly intelligent filmmaker, and I think Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredibly talented actor.
— Ryan Kavanaugh
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
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
— Darren Aronofsky
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
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
— Doug Liman
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
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
— Lasse Hallstrom
I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.
— David A.R. White
I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
— Jodie Foster
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
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
— Michael Haneke
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.
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
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
— Brooke Shields
Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
— Alexandre Aja
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
— Stanley Tucci
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, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.
— Andrew Dominik
I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.
— Susan Griffin
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
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
— Rachel Griffiths
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
For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.
— Michael Moore
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
— Peter Morgan
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
— Simon Beaufoy
I would give female filmmakers the same advice I'd give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.
— Leanne Pooley
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
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
One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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 just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.
— Mary Harron
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
— Walter Salles
This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.
— John Lasseter
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
— Alain Resnais
I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
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
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
As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.
— Tommy Wiseau
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
— John Carpenter
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
— Johnny Depp
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
The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.
— Kevin Connolly
