Filmmaker Quotes

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

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

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

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

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

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

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!

As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.

Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

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

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

When we bring the filmmaker, we bring somebody to help us elevate the material with those things, to help us do something different with all of those resources at their disposal.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

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

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

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

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

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

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.

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

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

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

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.