Filmmakers Quotes

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

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

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

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

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.