Filmmaker Quotes - Page 7

• As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

  George A. Romero

  Actors, Doe, Genre

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• There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Money, Giving

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• If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.

  Frank Capra

  Movie, Inspiring, Trying

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• It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

  Donal Logue

  Mistake, Cutting, Rough

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

  Steven Spielberg

  Movie, Inspiring, Positivity

  "Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg's Suburbia". Interview with Chris Hodenfield, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

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• I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

  Howard Hawks

  Movie, Inspiring, Moving

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

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• As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Mind, Watches, Theater

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• I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

  Edward Zwick

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

  "Leonardo DiCaprio & Ed Zwick for “Blood Diamond”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. December 7, 2006.

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• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

  Roman Polanski

  Movie, Inspiring, Humorous

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Father, Color, Documentaries

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• I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

  Ted Nelson

  Intellectual, Fields, Contribution

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• I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

  Ryan Phillippe

  One Day, Studios

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• But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

  Eriq La Salle

  Differences, Important, Want

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

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• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  Dan Glickman

  Independent, Intellectual, Fervor

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• I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

  Jason Mewes

  Attention, Pay, Pay Attention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Paul Strand

  Life, Photography, Records

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• America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  White, America, Black

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• Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

  Satyajit Ray

  Communication, Mind, Cinema

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Beautiful, Art, Truth

  "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.

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• Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Love, Dream, Time

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• The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

  Gordon Parks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

  Robert Duvall

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Life is adventure, not predicament.

  James Broughton

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

  Stephen King

  Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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