Filmmaker Quotes - Page 2

• I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

  Ben Gazzara

  Art, Awards, Cinema

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• Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

  Morris Chestnut

  Opportunity, White, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

  John Milius

  Levels

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

  Jodie Foster

  Knows

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• With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

  Bruce Conner

  Art, Couple, Foundation

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• I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Fiction, Narrative

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• An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Distance, Mean, Thinking

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• I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Thinking, Want

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

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• I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

  James Cameron

  Directors, Ifs

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

  Roland Emmerich

  Stupid

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• I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

  Mathieu Kassovitz

  Lucky, Able, Film

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• When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

  Patrice Leconte

  Ideas, Young

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

  John Lasseter

  Technology, Thinking, Surround Sound

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• And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

  Gus Van Sant

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

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• My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Flower, Order

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books

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• Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

  John Updike

  Movie, Inspiring, Safe

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• If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Inspiring, People

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• I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

  Richard Linklater

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

  John Huston

  Movie, Inspiring, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

  Jean Renoir

  Movie, Inspiring, Film Directing

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993)

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• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  My Autobiography ch. 10 (1964)

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• A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Gambling, Film

  Esquire magazine, February 1961.

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• The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Movie, Inspiring, Ends

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

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• I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

  Spike Lee

  Believe, Fall, Opportunity

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• I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was actually Frida's [Farell] story and she was trusting me to tell it. I felt very privileged.

  Rudolf Buitendach

  Interesting, Stories, Scripts

  Source: variety.com

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