Filmmaker Quotes

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

I steal from every movie ever made.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.