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The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.
— Greta Gerwig
I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.
— Spike Jonze
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
— Donal Logue
I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
— Alex Winter
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
— M. Night Shyamalan
I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
— Bruno Dumont
I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.
— David Twohy
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.
— Jill Soloway
You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
— Kareena Kapoor Khan
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
I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.
— Tamra Davis
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
— Michael Moore
I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.
— Michael B. Jordan
I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
— Bryce Dallas Howard
Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?
— Steven Shainberg
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.
— Ali Liebegott
All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
— Jeremy Davies
I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
— Steven Soderbergh
Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.
— James Mangold
You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
— Lena Dunham
We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.
— Michael Moore
I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
— Win Butler
While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.
— Sunny Deol
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
— Francis Ford Coppola
The filmmakers always have a great level of control.
— John Milius
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
— Cuba Gooding Jr.
I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
— Hailee Steinfeld
There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.
— Michel Hazanavicius
Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.
— Leslye Headland
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
— Chuck Klosterman
Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.
— Chris Hegedus
Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.
— Peter Dinklage
I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.
— Nina Jacobson
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
— Darren Aronofsky
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
— Ayelet Waldman
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
— Adam McKay
Before, I just don't think we knew how much music was out there; now with MySpace, it's really opened it up. Filmmakers have so much more choice.
— Allison Anders
I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.
— Danny Boyle
I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
— Melanie Lynskey
I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.
— Peter Jackson
We've always wanted to be filmmakers.
— Rhett McLaughlin
I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six.
— Thomas Tull
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
If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.
— Jihan El-Tahri
I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue.
— Haskell Wexler
I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.
— Sigourney Weaver
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
— Eva Marie Saint
Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
— Peter Jackson
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
— James McBride
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
— Peter Morgan
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
— Peter Greenaway
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
'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.
— Michael Fassbender
When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
— Dakota Johnson
Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
— Geoffrey Ward
I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.
— Jim Caviezel
There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers.
— Peter Landesman
Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.
— Reginald Hudlin
I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.
— Josh Brolin
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
— Bruce Jackson
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
— Benicio Del Toro
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
— Dan Glickman
I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.
— Douglas Booth
Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.
— Annalee Newitz
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
— Joel Silver
Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
— James Ransone
If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'
— Peter Bogdanovich
I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.
— Lynn Shelton
