Filmmaker Quotes - Page 20

• It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

  Roger Ebert

  Reading, Character, Feelings

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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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• For me, whether or not a film has some kind of massive budget or is an independent film, or however it's getting made, it's always about the filmmaker and, hopefully, being a vessel for the filmmaker's vision. That's what really attracts me to projects.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Independent, Vision, Kind

  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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• Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
  Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

  Manohla Dargis

  Independent, Wife, Dancer

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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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• I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.

  Spike Lee

  Independent, Cutting, Creative

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had access to that level of quality before. However, I do think film itself sets the standard for quality. You can talk about range, light, sensitive, resolution -- there's something about film that is undeniably beautiful, undeniably organic and natural and real.

  J. J. Abrams

  Beautiful, Real, Technology

  "‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Director J.J. Abrams Extols Shooting on Film vs. Digital" by Ben Fritz, blogs.wsj.com. Jul 29, 2014.

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• Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.

  Ron Perlman

  People, Tvs, Looks

  Source: variety.com

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• What is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really either of those things. Now I can tell the stories that I want to tell.

  James Gunn

  Attention, Stories, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK. However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers.

  James Berardinelli

  Doors, Names, America

  "Natural Born Killers". Movie Review, 1994.

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• For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

  Julia Bacha

  Temptation, Film, Measure Of Success

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• The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

  Tim League

  Summer, Numbers, Visionaries

  "Jason Eisener, Nacho Vigalondo, Ti West, and Many More Team for Horror Anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH" by Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. May 12, 2011.

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• A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.

  Rani Mukerji

  Mean, Mind, Agendas

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• I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

  Steven Spielberg

  Giving, Wish, Cinema

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• There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

  Lee Yoon-ki

  Clothes, Directors, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different.

  Drake Doremus

  Trying, Different, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether it's going to sell, or whether it's going to make money, or whether it's going to appeal to distributors. Do something from the heart that really matters, and then you'll do something good.

  Anne Makepeace

  Heart, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something to talk about. If it's not about anything that matters, I don't feel like doing it. I'm not against people who make movies just for fun, but I'm not one of those guys. I just want to provoke thinking and debating about certain issues.

  Jose Padilha

  Fun, Thinking, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Careers, Risk, Ambitious

  Source: www.mtv.com

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