Filmmaker Quotes - Page 16

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Voice, Materials

  Source: collider.com

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• I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Independent

  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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• You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Cant

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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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• I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Novelists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

  Adam McKay

  Directors, My Favorite, Great Writers

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• For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

  Tom Six

  Unique, Keys, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not talk about doing.

  Elliot Grove

  Successful, Action, Knowledgeable

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• There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Mean, Differences, Giving

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• It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Kids, Ideas, Want

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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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• At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

  Francois Truffaut

  Would Be, Firsts, Critics

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• I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

  Andrew Dominik

  Brother, People, Guy

  "Cannes: Andrew Dominik On The Violence, Politics & Look Of ‘Killing Them Softly’ With Brad Pitt". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.indiewire.com. May 24, 2012.

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• One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.

  Roger Ebert

  Mean, Pie, Hopeful

  Roger Ebert (2003). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004”, p.24, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I consider myself more of a film fan than a filmmaker, or I guess it's kind of a balance, fortunately. But I really want to see good movies as much as I want to make good movies and I want to see bizarre movies as much as I want to make bizarre movies.

  David Gordon Green

  Good Movie, Balance, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

  Channing Tatum

  Character, Important, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.

  Jessica Chastain

  Talking, Trying, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

  Jamie Wyeth

  Thinking, Documentaries, Painting

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• From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Creating, Cinema, Attention

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

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• I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.

  Spike Lee

  Summer, Jobs, New York

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