Filmmaker Quotes - Page 38

• I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

  Jaime King

  Directors, Actors, Plans

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

  Robert Kane Pappas

  Independent, Hollywood Films, Shooting

  "Can the Corporate Media Turn Lies Into Truth?". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.scoop.co.nz. August 12, 2011.

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• When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  School, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.

  M.I.A.

  Want, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as a filmmaker is to tell someone that might not think it's going to work that, actually, it will work.

  Alice Lowe

  Jobs, Passion, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain white dissolves were used that would try to emulate the look and feel of comic book panel borders. Sometimes they would frame shots in panels or circles that gave it a real comic book feel.

  Michael Uslan

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.

  Zack Snyder

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are fortunate to have such an esteemed filmmaker join the Marvel family. The talents Ryan [Coogler] showcased in his first two films easily made him our top choice to direct 'Black Panther.' Many fans have waited a long time to see Black Panther in his own film, and with Ryan we know we've found the perfect director to bring T'Challa's story to life.

  Kevin Feige

  Two, Long, Perfect

  "Ryan Coogler to direct Marvel's 'Black Panther'". news.marvel.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Mind, Synthesis

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Trying, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

  Chris Hegedus

  Men, Editing, Years

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.

  Chris Hegedus

  Crowdsourcing, Resources, Enormous

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

  Anne Fontaine

  Country, Blessed, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Style, Want, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

  Ethan Hawke

  Years, Interesting, Bars

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

  Ethan Hawke

  Passionate, Interest, Seems

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

  Elia Suleiman

  Film, Palestine, Just One

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• What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.

  Alex Gibney

  Opportunity, Peers, Festivals

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Thinking, Space, Important

  "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those unemployed moments, those other options will take precedent. From a directorial standpoint, I think it's really Freudian, the amount of trust I have in filmmakers because I have such a trusting relationship with my dad.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Dad, Thinking, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Lucky, Want, Really Great

  Source: collider.com

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• An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

  Johnny Depp

  Needs, Actors

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.

  Drew McWeeny

  Thinking, Shooting, Tests

  "Joel and Ethan Coen on how they turned Hollywood history into the hysterical ‘Hail, Caesar!’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 2, 2016.

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• Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Film, Christ, Ends

  "A chat with Joseph Fiennes - star of historical thriller "Risen". Interview with Ann Schneible, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 10, 2016.

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