Filmmaker Quotes

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

Freedom, Same, Himself

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
Quentin Tarantino

American, Might, Seems

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino

Himself, Stuff, Writes

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'
Drew Barrymore

Work, Home, End

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Care, Job

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
Ang Lee

Big, Chance, Personal

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
Joni Mitchell

Great, Girl, Said

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

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

Love, Different, Suddenly

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

Action, Cut, Yell

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.
John Cusack

Best, Control, Thought

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

Live, Place, City

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.
Spike Lee

Cousin, Malcolm, Lee

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
Jason Reitman

Life, Movies, Career

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
Otto Schily

Last, Year, Community

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.
Harvey Weinstein

Respect, Movies, Tough

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Christopher Nolan

Yourself, Writer, Symbols

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
Charlie Kaufman

Funny, Sad, Yourself

Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.
Richard Roeper

Time, Long, Used

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
Alton Brown

Food, School, Job

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.
Alton Brown

Food, Movies, Makes

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

Writer, Director

Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius

Today, Everybody

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
Christopher Nolan

Work, Technology, Film

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
Anna Deavere Smith

Love, Resources

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.
Jane Campion

Again, Once, Economic

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.
Josh Radnor

Long, Trying, Idea

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

Life, Clarity, Decided

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

Film, Seriously, Genre

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
Alexander Payne

Energy, Youth, Needs

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