Filmmaker Quotes - Page 27

• I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Film, Figures, Fetish

  Source: collider.com

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• There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

  Brit Marling

  Actors, World, Hard

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• Martin Scorsese is doing a 3D movie (Hugo Cabret). A lot of amazing filmmakers are. Not just the obvious of Jim Cameron, but Spielberg is doing it and Peter Jackson has worked in it. In the hands of those types of people, it will just keep getting better and better.

  Rob Letterman

  Hands, People, Get Better

  Source: collider.com

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• The things and the projects that I want to be a part of are not the ones that I get offered. I get offered a lot, but it's not what I'm interested in. So I have to fight very hard for the things that I want to do and to work with the filmmakers that I want to work with.

  Nina Dobrev

  Fighting, Want, Projects

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peapa, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• 3D is very exciting. I love it. I'm a complete convert. Everything for me, from now on, is 3D. I'm completely convinced it's the future of home entertainment, as well as cinema entertainment. I think it's a paradigm shift, in terms of cinema, and those things don't happen very often. The introduction of sound, the introduction of color photography and now 3D have been the big shifts. They happen once every 40 or 50 years, so it's very exciting to be a filmmaker, working while one of them is happening.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Photography, Home, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening.

  Lee Hirsch

  Kids, Voice, Listening

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a very different experience shooting in 3-D because the camera rigs are so large. Everything we've become accustomed to in the last ten years as filmmakers, which is cameras getting smaller and smaller and you can just throw them on your shoulder and stick them in a car and do whatever you want, you can't do any of that now. You're forced to put things on dollies and track and cranes.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Years, Different Experiences, Track

  Source: collider.com

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• I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking is very well-suited to 3-D anyway, so it's not like I'm having to change a huge amount of the way I shoot to work in 3-D. I think you could probably dimensionalize some of my movies and they would make very good 3-D films.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Thinking, Style, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little hello to the filmmakers, and that kind of back and forth dialogue between artists that say, "I loved your movie. I was influenced by your movie. If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't be thinking of that. Do my TV show and then one day I'll make a movie where I can play with some of the visual themes in "Force Majeure."

  Jill Soloway

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

  Georgina Haig

  Responsibility, People, Different

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

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• When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.

  Raymond Depardon

  Done, Documentaries, Film

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• I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

  Denzel Washington

  Causes, Easy, Process

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• I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. You have to hear from the taxi drivers. You have to hear from the painters. You have to hear from the poets. You have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians.

  Michael Franti

  Teacher, Military, School

  "Reasoning With Michael Franti". Interview with Marlon Regis, jahworks.org. October 21.

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• It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the author's intent to deal with, you have the filmmaker's vision, and then you have your own wants, desires and needs for the character. It's collaborative. But I knew, right off the bat, that there was no way to go into some sort of pink-haired, clown-nosed character with Ronald McDonald shoes.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Responsibility, Shoes

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

  Chika Anadu

  Mind, Want, Film

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

  Chika Anadu

  Periods, Describe Myself

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

  Chika Anadu

  Inspire, Wicked, Example

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

  Werner Herzog

  People, Way, Best Things

  "Werner Herzog INTO THE ABYSS Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.

  Johnny Depp

  Different, Approach, Different Approach

  "Johnny Depp On Set Interview PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4: ON STRANGER TIDES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 3, 2011.

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• Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

  Michael Haneke

  Film, Audience

  Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. February 9, 2013.

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• I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

  Mark Boal

  Thinking, Expectations, Trying

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• The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Stories, Skimming

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.195, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, Idols, Creative

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• I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them to be judged for what they are and analyzed, accepted, criticized, whatever you want to call it, on their own terms, not as part of some mall-cop genre.

  Jody Hill

  Thinking, Want, Film

  Interview with The A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.

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• It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

  Robert Altman

  Movie, Inspiring, Different

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