Filmmaker Quotes - Page 15

• 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've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Documentaries, Photographer, Has Beens

  "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.

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• It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

  Noah Baumbach

  Change, Nice, People

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• There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

  Len Lye

  Spirit, Film, Great Film

  Len Lye, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Roger Horrocks, Jonathan Dennis, Centre Georges Pompidou (2000). “Len Lye: la manifestation Len Lye est présentée au Centre Pompidou du 5 au 30 avril 2000; au Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg du 23 juin au 10 septembre 2000; au Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing du 14 octobre au 17 décembre 2000”, Editions du Centre Pompidou

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• I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

  Josh Brolin

  Very Happy, Great Film, Involved

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• My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Smart, Character

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• I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.

  Jonas Mekas

  Long, Together, Etc

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Voice, Materials

  Source: collider.com

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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'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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• The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

  Lucy Walker

  Needs, World, Easier

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

  Lucy Walker

  Ambition, People, Different

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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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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• If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

  Terrence Malick

  Jobs, Scripts, Want

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Cant

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• 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

  Lying, White, Black

  "Spike Lee’s Co-Writer Pens an Open Letter: “Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens.”". www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!

  Laura Ingraham

  New York, Passion, Office

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