Film-Maker Quotes

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
Quentin Tarantino

Film, Critic, Qualified

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.
Charlize Theron

Work, Career, Different

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
Danny Boyle

Hard, Different, Easy

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.
Kathryn Bigelow

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
Mira Nair

Cut, Cloth, Foremost

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.
Jonah Hill

Love, Acting, Learn

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
Errol Morris

Good, Reason, Writer

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'
Mira Nair

Mean, America, Said

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
Peter Greenaway

Far, Exciting, Painting

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.
Isabelle Huppert

Great, Real, Difficult

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.
Rutger Hauer

Good, Job, Hard

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