Filmmaker Quotes

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

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you.

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

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.

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’ I think that’s a good lesson for me.

As a female filmmaker it's important to have a voice for and about women. We have a lot of valuable stories to tell and young girls need to hear them.

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

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

What am I doing as a filmmaker? What is the goal? To look for the unknown atmosphere that hasn't been described before. This is my only goal. Unknown images. Because if not, it's boring, no?

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socialized as a woman, but also as a filmmaker.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.