A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles

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

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
Alejandro Amenabar

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
George A. Romero

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.
Eriq La Salle

Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius

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

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
Jodie Foster

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
Darren Aronofsky

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
Tom Hooper

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.
Jason Mewes

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
Conrad Hall

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
John Cusack

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

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.
Jay Roach

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
Tim Robbins

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
Spike Lee

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
John Singleton

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
Edward Zwick

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.
Ted Nelson