Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.
All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.
Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
I am very much open to doing cinematography for any talented filmmaker, if the script is good.
But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker.
What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.
Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.
Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.
There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.
As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.
I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to that.
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.
You can understand the integrity of the filmmaker from his camera angles. You can't hide anything from it.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.
What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.