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I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.
As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.
Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.
Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!
When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.
Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.
I feel I'm a hammer to the construction worker that is the filmmaker.
Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.
Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.
I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.
I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.
Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.
As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.
Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.
As someone who's been a filmmaker and an editor, I was wary of being on camera.
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.
As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'
The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.
I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
What you want, as a filmmaker, is to be obsessed with and fall in love with the material.
The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.
It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.