Filmmaker Quotes

• I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That's the criteria.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Important
  • Role
  • Directors

• I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Film
  • Speak
  • Successful

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

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • War
  • Nature
  • Humans

• There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • World
  • Needs
  • Filmmaker

• I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Filmmaker
  • Sociologists

• But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • Important
  • Actors
  • Differences

• It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Kids
  • Ideas
  • Film

• 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?

  

  Albert Serra
  • Goal
  • Atmosphere
  • Filmmaker

• 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.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Business
  • Films
  • Filmmaker

• I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there to leave a trace. I hope my film leaves a trace and that it will open a door for French cinema and that tomorrow other directors will make political movies. The job of a filmmaker today is to talk about the world surrounding him and, through his movies, to both entertain and raise questions about modern society.

  

  Xavier Durringer
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Viewers

• For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

  

  Julia Bacha
  • Success
  • Measure
  • Filmmaker

• A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

  

  Michael Winner
  • People
  • Director
  • Inspiring

• For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.

  

  Aurora Guerrero
  • Voice
  • Stories
  • Filmmaker

• Steven Spielberg is a talented, wonderful filmmaker.

  

  George Chakiris
  • Wonderful
  • Talented
  • Steven Spielberg

• I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Actor
  • Filmmaker
  • Fanatic

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

  

  Adria Petty
  • Music
  • Know
  • Story

• As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • Opportunity
  • Way
  • Admire

• Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time available. I think that makes a huge difference. I think he instinctively knows how to make films and all the different ways that you can make stuff. He's very gadget-wise, and he's very smart about all the different things that are available to a filmmaker nowadays, and he makes very good use of them. He has a theater in his house, for God's sake. It has proper curtains on it and everything. It's pretty wild.

  

  Michael Madsen
  • Different
  • House
  • Smart

• My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Son

• The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other up. As a creator, a director and a filmmaker, you often get assaulted and you lose perspective because you have all of this pressure. It was so nice to call him and say, "What do you think?"

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Perspective

• I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

  

  Steve Tisch
  • Kissing
  • Materials
  • Notion

• As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Mind
  • Film
  • Audience

• If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.

  

  Mike deGruy
  • Animals
  • Background
  • Fundamental

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