Filmmaker Quotes - Page 18

• I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

  Andrew Stanton

  Mean, Thinking, Pixar

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• Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

  Jeremy Davies

  School, Acting, Film

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

  Jeremy Davies

  Taken, Desire, Educate

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

  John Woo

  Hard Work, Masters, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Horror, Please

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• I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

  Rupert Sanders

  Feels

  "‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Director Rupert Sanders On Kristen Stewart And His ‘Mirror Mirror’ Fears" by Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.

  Zack Snyder

  Unique, Superhero, Guy

  "Zack Snyder on 'Watchmen' legacy as 'the anti-"Avengers" movie'". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 12, 2012.

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• In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  School, Drawing, Dinosaurs

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• Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.

  China Mieville

  Running, Military, People

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• The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

  James McBride

  America, Black, Want

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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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• 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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• 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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• In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

  Jonas Mekas

  Film, Internet, Needed

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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'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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• 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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• 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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