Filmmaker Quotes - page 2

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)
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker. View quote
Mike Figgis
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film. View quote
Norman McLaren
'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it. View quote
Olivia Thirlby
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker. View quote
Patrice Leconte
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. View quote
Robert Wise
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't. View quote
Sam Mendes
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker. View quote
Stanley Tucci
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. View quote
Tom Hooper
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots. View quote
Walter Salles
I have a panic room in my house, where I am supposed to take refuge if one of the adherents of the "religion of peace" makes it past my permanent security detail and into my home. In fact, it's not really my home at all-I live in a government safe house, heavily protected and bulletproof. Since November 2004, when a Muslim murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh for the crime of offending Islam, I have been surrounded by police guards and stripped of nearly all personal privacy. I am driven every day from the safe house to my office in the Dutch Parliament building in armored police cars with sirens and flashing blue lights. I wear a bulletproof jacket when I speak in public. Always surrounded by plainclothes police officers, I have not walked the streets on my own in more than seven years. (Geert Wilders)
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible. View quote
Damian Pettigrew
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now. View quote
Matthew McConaughey
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don't let anybody fiddle with it. Never turn down a good idea, but never take a bad idea. And meditate. It's very important to experience that Self, that pure consciousness. It's really helped me. I think it would help any filmmaker. So start diving within, enlivening that bliss consciousness. Grow in happiness and intuition. Experience the joy of doing. And you'll glow in this peaceful way. Your friends will be very, very happy with you. Everyone will want to sit next to you. And people will give you money! View quote
David Lynch
Clerks spoke with the sure, clear voice of an original filmmaker. In Mallrats the voice is muffled, and we sense instead advice from the tired, the establishment, the timid and other familiar Hollywood executive types. The year that Clerks played at the Cannes Film Festival, I was the chairman of a panel discussion of independent filmmakers. Most of them talked about their battles to stay free from Hollywood's playsafe strategies. But Kevin Smith cheerfully said he'd be happy to do whatever the studios wanted, if they'd pay for his films. At the time, I thought he was joking. View quote
Roger Ebert
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. View quote
Orson Welles
I WANTED nothing more than to be a foreign filmmaker, but of course I was from Brooklyn, which was not a foreign country. Through a happy accident I wound up being a foreign filmmaker because I couldn't raise money any other way. View quote
Woody Allen
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. View quote
Christopher Nolan
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker. View quote
Ryan Phillippe
Why do I make movies? I'm looking for terra incognita, a land on which no filmmaker has yet set foot, a planet where no director has planted his flag of conquest, a world that exists only in fairy tales. (Karel Zeman)
Movies are much more fascist than books. They tell you what to feel, when to feel it. Popular movies manipulate you. Music tells you when it's a sad part and when it's a happy part. You're obliged to watch them at the speed the filmmaker has created for you. That, I think, is one of the reasons why they're so popular - because you don't have to think very hard. The filmmaker has done all the thinking for you. View quote
Clive Barker
I'm not a career filmmaker and by that I'm not tearing down people who are, but I'm not Wes Anderson who can rent out a floor at the Chateau Marmont for a month to write my new screenplay--I have a life outside of filmmaking and after Buffalo '66, I genuinely thought I was done with making movies. But they pulled me back in. This Brown Bunny, it had something in it for me that I just had to say. I had to express it, it was in me and it ate its way out of me. I wished that it didn't, but it did and I was surprised to find myself shooting again. View quote
Vincent Gallo
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. View quote
Werner Herzog