After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything`s still here. I`m OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge and, when filmmakers or writers can take them t...
Steven Spielberg
If you want to make a movie, make it. Don`t wait for a grant, don`t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it. - Giving advice to young aspiring filmmakers at the 1994 Independent Spirit Awards
Quentin Tarantino
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 [Ingmar Bergman], [Vittorio De Sica] and [Federico Fellini] are the only three filmmakers in the world who are not just artistic opportunists. By this I mean they don`t just sit and wait for a good story to come along and then make it. They have...
Stanley Kubrick
I`ve learned that we can do just about anything under the sun with computers. So the question becomes, should we? Or, should we remind ourselves, as filmmakers, to be careful and remember that there is nothing more important than how a story is told? If s...
Steven Spielberg
I don`t think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic ...
Stanley Kubrick
People who work in television often don`t think they can trust film makers because they are supposed to be a bit more arty and self indulgent, and people in film might think anyone who works in television is a hack. If we had more filmmakers working in te...
David Yates
And I do think there`s a new crop of American filmmakers coming. And they`re in high school right now. They`re in Mrs. Dawson`s English class! They`ve got new tools, they`ve got computers and the video cameras, which are the equivalent of our super-8mm tr...
Sam Raimi
If you look at the most talented filmmakers around right now, David Cronenberg and David Lynch, they had relatively normal upbringings. It doesn`t always take exotic, bizarre lifestyles, early-age molestations and prison sentences.
Trent Reznor
I`m not cynical. I`m merely stating a fact. Most filmmakers` entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That`s why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. Bu...
John Malkovich
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
Stanley Kubrick
Different filmmakers do it different ways. My way was to make something for cheap. It`s a good deal for people to give me $3 million for a movie. So they don`t have a lot of requirements. If I was looking for $30 million, then they need more requirements....
Gus Van Sant
... but it was movies I had always wanted to be in. I`m into the whole thing, not just performing. I love watching what goes on behind the camera. My heroes are Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd -- complete filmmakers.
Bill Paxton
Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others ...
Ludivine Sagnier
You know for American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
Bernardo Bertolucci
I get so protective of David [Lynch], like an older sister or something, which is so absurd. He`s not waiting for us to get the movie because he doesn`t think the cinema is about `getting it`. I think he believes - which I`ve found very rare in filmmakers...
Laura Dern
I`ve spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That`s where the filmmakers come from, it`s where they start and sometimes its...
John Hurt
[on Paul Thomas Anderson]: "Most filmmakers today have no sense of the history of our business, but he knows every shot John Ford made. And he doesn`t lack for confidence. He really knew which shots he wanted to make. I remember the first shot in Boogie N...
Burt Reynolds
[on young filmmakers]: Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I`m tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I`ve had, telling me to turn left at the couch. There`s no appreciation of actors and no sense of history.
Burt Reynolds
In a house there is the top floor and there is the cellar. The underground filmmakers live in the same house as Hollywood, but they work in the cellar. It`s up to them if they like to live in the dark. The Hollywood filmmakers are more intelligent, becaus...
Jean-Luc Godard
In a house there is the top floor and there is the cellar. The underground filmmakers live in the same house as Hollywood, but they work in the cellar. It`s up to them if they like to live in the dark. The Hollywood filmmakers are more intelligent, becaus...
Jean-Luc Godard
I`m into the whole thing, not just performing. I love watching what goes on behind the camera. My heroes are Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd -- complete filmmakers.
Bill Paxton
[on the film adaptations of Bret Easton Ellis books Less Than Zero (1987) and American Psycho (2000)] Those two movies have stripped away his literary devices, and the filmmakers are just trying to tell the story. If you strip away Bret`s devices, you str...
Roger Avary
Too many filmmakers today are trying to put their work into a box. I can`t stand that! Making movies is a lot of work. Let`s take some risks.
Cillian Murphy
I was just a poor student. I had no interest in it. When I make a film the tacit contract with the audience is that I will give them some entertainment and not bore them. I have to do that. I just lay a message on them. Great filmmakers, like Ingmar Bergm...
Woody Allen
The filmmakers were obsessed with having someone skinny. I just thought, why didn`t they get someone like Kate Bosworth, if that`s what they wanted? An actress like that wouldn`t worry about whether or not the political ideas were being sensitively or sub...
Romola Garai
Some people will say, `Ahhh, he`s over the top, it`s gratuitous,` [but] I disagree completely. He`s one of the most responsible filmmakers today as far as showing violence - which there`s very little of compared to other movies. It just stays with you bec...
Viggo Mortensen
It`s not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers ...
Katrina Kaif
Filmmakers have a responsibility to the audience and to the work, I wish they felt that responsibility more, especially to what`s true in life.
Peter Bogdanovich
After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything`s still here. I`m OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge and, when filmmakers or writers can take them t...
Steven Spielberg
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