Filmmakers Quotes

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Look, I'm going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I've been around for a while, and I'm not going to play into the hype that I'm some great, you know, discovery.

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

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.

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.