It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended.
Martin Dansky
[On why he turned down the chance to reprise his role in a sequel to Bubba Hotep]: Don Coscarelli is a very passionate filmmaker. We got to a few points that we couldn`t reconcile. I want to keep our friendship, so we parted ways. So I`m not part of that ...
Bruce Campbell
I think that what a lot of first-time filmmakers don`t realize is that they are the least experienced person on that set. Everybody else has been doing their job for years, so the whole act of playing the filmmaker, playing the person in command, is a cha...
Sarah Polley
I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn`t matter if you`re an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be abl...
Tom Cruise
[Steven Spielberg on Bergman] I have always admired him, and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.
Ingmar Bergman
From being a struggling. starving filmmaker to being incredibly successful in a period of a couple of years is quite a powerful experience, and not necessarily a good one.
George Lucas
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
(Thoughts on the one film (or films) that made him want to become a filmmaker and why): There was no epiphany from one film. There were a few that stood out over the years. I was 8 when I saw _Ladri di biciclette (1948)_, and it was the first black-and-wh...
Alfonso Cuaron
The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, That was a nice movie." But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk ... I think we`re all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an a...
Paul Haggis
I`ve never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I`m a successful filmmaker - in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, an...
Stanley Kubrick
Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don`t think of it as just movies, but as a life. I couldn`t help but wonder how my life was going to go ... One film does not make a career.
Jason Reitman
What does it take to be a filmmaker in Hollywood? Even today I still wonder what it takes to be a professional or even an artist in Hollywood. How do you survive the constant tug of war between personal expression and commercial imperatives? What is the p...
Martin Scorsese
I saw Vera Drake and Mike Leigh is a masterful filmmaker. I think it`s indisputable. He works with actors like no one else. It`s beautifully shot and beautifully played. And yet at the same time, I just want to scream! I say, would it have been a sin for ...
Todd Solondz
[On filming The Sweet Hereafter (1997)] "I was so young then, 18. I`m really comfortable in sadness so I don`t get depressed doing stuff like that. I actually find it invigorating. It was an amazing experience. Atom Egoyan is a filmmaker who I really resp...
Sarah Polley
[on Sam Peckinpah] Sam is, I think, a great filmmaker. Of course, he`s his own worst enemy. Sam is an unusual human being, and he needs to be treated like an unusual human being. He can create an atmosphere, whether he`s drunk, sober, pissed off or in a r...
James Coburn
A script, even it differs from filmmaker to filmmaker, never tells the whole story; there are always elements that need to be invented. As soon as one decides to take a role after having read the script, the various elements begin to fall into place. A ch...
Isabelle Huppert
A script, even it differs from filmmaker to filmmaker, never tells the whole story; there are always elements that need to be invented. As soon as one decides to take a role after having read the script, the various elements begin to fall into place. A ch...
Isabelle Huppert
I consider my films first and foremost to be dramas about individuals in personal struggles and I consider myself to be a dramatist before I am a political filmmaker. I`m interested in alternative points of view. I think ultimately the problems of the pla...
Oliver Stone
Speaking at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival about filmmaker Michael Moore: "Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary."
Jean-Luc Godard
I think there`s a tendency [among some animators] to wink at the audience so much that you feel that you`re above the world that you`re presenting-like the filmmaker doesn`t really believe in the world that he`s putting on screen. And there`s a safety in ...
Brad Bird
As filmmaker, I ask questions but don`t have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.
David Cronenberg
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn`t mean that the other 39 are bad.
Ken Burns
It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended.
Martin Dansky
