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I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.
When a filmmaker tries to make a good film and if he gets success in that then definitely it's a nice feeling.
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.
I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.
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 keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.
I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.
As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.
One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.
As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
I'd love to be a filmmaker and look back and be like, 'Ah, man, we were part of that whole '80s video nasty thing!'
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
I think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous actor.
I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
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 don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
When I work in a film like an actor, I do not interfere or try to use my seniority or impose anything on the filmmaker.
I don't want to be the Asian filmmaker; I just want to be a filmmaker. I want to be Spielberg. I want to be Tim Burton.
Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.
The worst thing for me as a filmmaker is to watch on the iPhone but you can't stop it. I think you have to adapt to it.
After 'Fukrey,' when a filmmaker came to narrate a film to me, I started crying. It was a dream come true moment for me.
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
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 free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.
Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.
I didn't see myself in Jia Jhangke or Wong Kar-Wai films. Those are Asian filmmakers, and I very much am an American filmmaker.
You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.