Filmmaker Quotes - Page 7

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you're intrigued, the work will grow on you and you're going to build your own interpretation.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

Well, there's two things I have criteria for doing a film: The script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's a filmmaker's medium. I like really strong directors, and so when I do a film, I'm out there to serve the director, really, which is in turn to serve the script, to serve the director cause he's the one making the film. I relied on Todd Haynes for that.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is very much alive in me. I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was announced, we didn't even have a script yet. It was just being written. People announce things too soon. If you go to any filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - you go in their offices and there are scripts everywhere and there's about four or five of them you really want to make.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.