Filmmaker Quotes

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

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.

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.

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

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

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

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.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.