Filmmakers Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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 want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.