Filmmaker Quotes - Page 3

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

I don't really like movies that are all one or the other. It's really about the play between both of them. Now that I've said that, there's actually lots of movies that I like that are one or the other but it's just not for me as a filmmaker.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

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

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

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

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.