Filmmaker Quotes
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Any filmmaker who has translated some personal vision into a film that actually gets shot and distributed is wildly successful. Congratulations! Anything after that is gravy.
Paul Dinello -
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.
Nina Menkes
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Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.
Catherine Hardwicke -
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.
Michael Pitt -
If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!
Terrence Malick -
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.
Nikola Jean Caro -
As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.
Chika Anadu -
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.
Stanley Kubrick
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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.
Steve Carr -
I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
Richard Linklater -
Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.
Errol Morris -
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.
Sharlto Copley -
But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
Evan Glodell -
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.
Stanley Kubrick
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There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
Mike Figgis -
I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
Casey Neistat -
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
Tim Robbins -
Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.
Ethan Hawke -
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
Johnny Depp -
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.
Nick Love
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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.
Errol Morris -
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
Richard Linklater -
I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
Roland Emmerich -
I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
Roland Emmerich