Filmmaker Quotes - Page 4

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

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. I still don't feel like I've been part of the stereotypical Hollywood system.

I like the direct contact. I want a lot of people that only know me through the mass media to learn more about what I'm doing, and to know that I'm an independent filmmaker and I'm not part of the Hollywood system. I'm coming from where they started. I'm not coming from a family with a lot of money.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker.

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a period of time in my life when I made directly autobiographical films where I truly told what happened to me. But, now, I don't make directly autobiographical films anymore. I am more for renouncing that and being in front of history. The large part of my work tells about something I know. It's close.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.