Filmmaker Quotes
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It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.
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I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.
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I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.
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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.
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I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
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If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!
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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.
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I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
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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.
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I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.
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I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
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I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
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I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
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There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
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I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
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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.
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An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
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As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.
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I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.
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Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.
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But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
