Filmmaker Quotes

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different.

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.

I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of scripts. I know he wrote a hell of a lot.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.

The filmmaker is not telling you what to think.

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].

Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.