Filmmaker Quotes - Page 33

• A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don't stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.

  Wesley Morris

  Art, Book, Pieces

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Shooting, Projects, Just One

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be more expensive to do, so I sort of decided music would be more fun.

  Will Sheff

  Fun, School, College

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. May 1, 2007.

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• Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Who I Am, Fans, Film

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• You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

  Kareena Kapoor

  Age, Looks, Want

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• I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.

  John Polson

  Rip, Artist, Thinking

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• Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

  Steven Shainberg

  Desperate

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• Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

  Pamela Yates

  Essence, Knowing, Judging

  "'Granito: How to Nail a Dictator': New Film Tracks Struggle for Justice After Guatemalan Genocide". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. September 15, 2011.

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• I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

  Christopher Egan

  People, Actors, Want

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• To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

  Doug Liman

  Believe, Home, Miles

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• I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

  Doug Liman

  People, Dumb, Action

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• I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

  Doug Liman

  Independent, Attention, Directors

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• Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

  Alexandre Aja

  Thinking, Trying

  "SDCC 2010: Alexandre Aja Interview PIRANHA 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2010.

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• A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

  Mark Waters

  Firsts, Apologizing, First Time

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• I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

  Jonathan Glazer

  Wish, Next, Kind

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• Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but true change would include brown work, and it would include work by Asian-Americans, and it would include natives, and it would include women, and it would include more LGBTQ voices.

  Ava DuVernay

  Voice, Focus, Black

  Source: deadline.com

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• There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been looking at her direction. She's not done it before because you've not given her the opportunity to do it before, and I'm just happy that folks like Jessica Jones' Melissa Rosenberg and folks like Ryan Murphy are also embracing this idea.

  Ava DuVernay

  Opportunity, Ideas, Done

  Source: deadline.com

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• We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].

  Janusz Kaminski

  Horse, War, Creating

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Example, Sometimes, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

  Denzel Washington

  Looks, Approach, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

  Sergio Leone

  Mother, Father, Son

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Father, Inspiration, I Have Learned

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Great Success, Exciting

  Source: www.shakefire.com

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• It's always important to understand as filmmakers that we're not making a documentary and it has to look good. It has to entertain, because otherwise your audience will switch and watch another series. It has to look better and larger than life.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Important, Watches, Looks

  Source: www.dotwnews.com

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• To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

  Arthur Jafa

  Black, Trying, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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