Filmmaker Quotes

I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
Callie Khouri

Work, Hard, Pretty

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

Student, Remain, Privileges

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
Edward Zwick

Change, Time, Hope

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
James McBride

Nothing, Black, Same

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

Age, Movies, Young

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.
John Singleton

Cool, Fun, Trying

I've had a lot of fun watching my husband's wonderful career as a filmmaker unfold and all the interesting places we've been and people we've met. It's just been a really enjoyable ride.
Susanna Hoffs

Fun, Husband, Career

I never set out to build some behemoth comedy career. My taste in movies is far more eclectic than that so my aspirations as a filmmaker are far more eclectic than that.
Shawn Levy

Movies, Career, Far

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.
George Hickenlooper

Work, Find, Rewarding

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.
John Woo

Friend, Everyone, Rather

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
Bill Forsyth

Thought, Made, Films

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
Bryan Singer

Alone, Find, Else

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
Evan Glodell

Else, Everybody, Actor

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
Bill Paxton

Start, Level, Studio

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
Roland Emmerich

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
Roland Emmerich

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
Robert Wise

Patience, Passion, Three

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
Nicholas Meyer

Made, Before, Else

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.
Mathieu Kassovitz

Through, Able, Lucky

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

Great, Means, Distance

As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.
Tony Kaye

Wait, Speak, Stop

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.
Bruce Weber

Family, Dad, Means

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
Laura Ziskin

Excited, Projects

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
Bruce Conner

Made, Short, Artist

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