Filmmaker Quotes

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you know, I put a lot of thought and energy, that's for sure.

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker.

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

I've had a lot of fun watching my husband's wonderful career as a filmmaker unfold and all the interesting places we've been and people we've met. It's just been a really enjoyable ride.

As a filmmaker, you've got to have a nose for what's going on culturally. You have to feel it. It doesn't have to be manga or music, but you need some kind of antenna. That's very important.

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.

Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time."

I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing, it looks like they would actually be better filmmakers. I think this is absurd.