Filmmaker Quotes - Page 14

• Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Voice, Materials

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

  Alec Soth

  Book, Thinking, Narrative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Independent

  Source: collider.com

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• You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Jobs, Deep Understanding, People

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• I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.

  Lucy Walker

  Crazy, Opportunity, Thinking

  "‘Crash Reel’ Documentarian Lucy Walker Knows Where She’s Going". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Here I Am, Goes On

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• I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

  George A. Romero

  Zombie, Easy, Neighbor

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• It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Mentor, Female

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• I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.

  Eli Roth

  Years, Movie Love, Levels

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• I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

  Eli Roth

  Baby, Thinking, Actors

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• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  Zoe Saldana

  Important, Said, Admiring

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• I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Categories, Contemporary

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• Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

  Martin Scorsese

  Opportunity, Hbo, Long

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.

  Sean William Scott

  Couple, Thinking, Risk

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• Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

  Brooke Shields

  Artist, Innocence And Experience, Theme

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

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Documentaries, Resources, Has Beens

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• Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

  Kevin Smith

  Odd, Reason, Deeper

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2008.

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• Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

  Wesley Snipes

  Creativity, Games, Makers

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 11, 2011.

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• I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Character, Mean, Play

  "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• 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

  Running, Believe, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

  Sam Raimi

  Team, Kids, Michigan

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 29, 2004.

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• I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

  Rami Malek

  Thinking, Bills, Privilege

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

  Danny Strong

  Kids, Eight, Age

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• Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

  Sam Raimi

  Mean, Elements, Horror

  Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 21, 2007.

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• Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.

  Paula Patton

  Light, Color, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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