Filmmaker Quotes - Page 28

• I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

  Peter Greenaway

  Lying, Believe, Differences

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• [ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents].

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Breakup, Pain, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm sure that every kind of filmmaker feels that they can do other genres of film and want to, and I feel the same way.

  Steve Pink

  Drama, Opportunity, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

  Dallas Campbell

  Thinking, Discipline, Cinema

  Source: collider.com

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• As an independent filmmaker, to develop the money and the financing and the structure and the whole process, and then promoting them and traveling with them, which is a part of the process that I've always enjoyed and I've learned a great deal from.

  Todd Haynes

  Independent, I've Learned, Structure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Opportunity, Stories, World

  Source: collider.com

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• By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.

  James Ponsoldt

  Perspective, Film, States

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

  Lynn Shelton

  Independent, Television, Found

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

  M.I.A.

  Teaching, College, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

  Brad Furman

  Striving To Be The Best, Being The Best, Strive

  Source: collider.com

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• What I have learned first and foremost is to follow your instincts. As a filmmaker, there are no rules as to how to play this game. That is a big problem I think that exists in the education on how to be a filmmaker or how to make movies.

  Brad Furman

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

  Fede Alvarez

  Sound, Way, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

  Sam Raimi

  Book, Firsts, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

  Joe Swanberg

  Eye, Years, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

  James Mangold

  Dvds, Trouble, Quoting

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Real, Mean, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Interesting, Lucky, Lows

  Source: collider.com

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• Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.

  Fede Alvarez

  Care, Firsts, Features

  Source: collider.com

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• The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.

  Lynn Shelton

  Jobs, Directors, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• I think I've always admired sort of dynamic filmmakers, which doesn't shy away from strong expressions. Which might be a little more theatrical at some points.

  Fredrik Bond

  Strong, Thinking, Expression

  Source: collider.com

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• What I love about the filmmakers that I mentioned [Danny Boyle,Leo Carax], is that it's visual but it's also, you see that the characters are the most important thing. The actors are the most important thing.

  Fredrik Bond

  Character, Important, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

  Rachel Maddow

  Different, Film, Knows

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• The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

  Deepa Mehta

  Interesting, Rays, India

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• I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Sex, People, Hollywood

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

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• When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

  Diablo Cody

  Mean, Encounters, Inspired

  "Diablo Cody Talks about the 2013 Athena Film Festival, Female Writers and Directors She Admires, Plus Updates on PARADISE and SWEET VALLEY HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2013.

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