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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

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time. — Rob Reiner

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing. — Ben Whishaw

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

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible. — Spike Jonze

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

Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares. — Fede Alvarez

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

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us. — Lucy Walker

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook. — Sean Astin

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians. — Costa-Gavras

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

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there. — Julie Gonzalo

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers? — Steven Shainberg

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed

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 think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. — Robert Redford

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

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary. — Simon Pegg

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

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view. — Dave McKean

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

One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean. — Roger Ebert

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo. — Alan Mak

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

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on. — Kevin Feige

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

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. — Ridley Scott

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

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again. — Tom Hooper

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

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil. — Anil Kapoor

We've always wanted to be filmmakers. — Rhett McLaughlin

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made. — Ciaran Hinds

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

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes. — Paul Feig

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

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama. — Michelle Yeoh

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

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian. — Evan Osnos

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

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor. — Bradley Cooper

'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

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies. — Josh Trank

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

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. — Sofia Coppola

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head. — Johnny Depp

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.' — Mark Waters

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

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. — Ava DuVernay

I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers. — Marshall Curry