Film-Makers Quotes

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Political, Different, Film

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

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Life, Father, Him

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Jane Campion

Freedom, Different, Short

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
David Fincher

Film, Both, Movie

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
Mike Leigh

True, Integrity, Real

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
P. J. Harvey

Poets, Influenced, Painters

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.
Jamie Bell

Work, Nothing, Bored

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
Abbas Kiarostami

Important, Find, Between

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.
Jessica Chastain

Love, Great, Try

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom

Long, Leader, Artists

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.
Anthony Minghella

Child, Since, Cinema

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles

Help, Between, Wonderful

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.
Luc Dardenne

Country, Small, Film

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival.
Milos Forman

Remember, Days, Second

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
Frank Capra

Young, Advice, Start

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
Jack Valenti

Tell, Story, Decide

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.
David Puttnam

Crisis, Focus, Confidence

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.
Mark Boal

Society, Movies, Sad

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