Filmmaker Quotes

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

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

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also 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.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I've had a lot of fun watching my husband's wonderful career as a filmmaker unfold and all the interesting places we've been and people we've met. It's just been a really enjoyable ride.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

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

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

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

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

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.

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