Filmmaker Quotes - Page 20

• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK. However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers.

  James Berardinelli

  Doors, Names, America

  "Natural Born Killers". Movie Review, 1994.

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• For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

  Julia Bacha

  Temptation, Film, Measure Of Success

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• The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

  Tim League

  Summer, Numbers, Visionaries

  "Jason Eisener, Nacho Vigalondo, Ti West, and Many More Team for Horror Anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH" by Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

  Steven Spielberg

  Giving, Wish, Cinema

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• There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

  Lee Yoon-ki

  Clothes, Directors, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different.

  Drake Doremus

  Trying, Different, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether it's going to sell, or whether it's going to make money, or whether it's going to appeal to distributors. Do something from the heart that really matters, and then you'll do something good.

  Anne Makepeace

  Heart, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something to talk about. If it's not about anything that matters, I don't feel like doing it. I'm not against people who make movies just for fun, but I'm not one of those guys. I just want to provoke thinking and debating about certain issues.

  Jose Padilha

  Fun, Thinking, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Careers, Risk, Ambitious

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Both as a filmmaker and as a fan I love the behind-the-scenes stuff, I like it even more than deleted scenes frankly. Especially when you're happy with the movie and you're proud of it, those deleted scenes give you also a sense of the making of the film and the process through which you end up with the final product.

  Simon Kinberg

  Stuff I Like, Giving, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.

  Ava DuVernay

  Color, Together, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.

  Zoe Saldana

  Artist, Balls, Kind

  "‘Guardians’ Interview: Zoe Saldana on Going Green and the Importance of Teenage Boys". www.slashfilm.com. July 10, 2014.

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• As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Asking, Wow, Impress

  Source: collider.com

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• I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

  Win Butler

  Thinking, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.

  David O. Russell

  Drama, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.

  David O. Russell

  Real, Trying, Might

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Purpose, Want

  "Michel Gondry & Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2004.

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• Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

  Bahman Ghobadi

  Iran, People, Littles

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• I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

  Steve Tisch

  Kissing, Thinking, Hands

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• I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

  Mick Jagger

  Hate, Should Have, White

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.

  Haile Gerima

  Passion, People, Hook

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.

  Haile Gerima

  Reality, Long, Historical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge.

  Haile Gerima

  Thinking, Conquer The World, Hollywood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.

  Haile Gerima

  Writing, Names, Venice

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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