Filmmaker Quotes - Page 5

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you know, I put a lot of thought and energy, that's for sure.

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.

As a woman filmmaker it's pretty important that you have some basis of confidence that you're coming from, because, as I got closer to LA, there's less and less women. There's less and less mirrors for who you are.

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

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

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a film like that. I have to be very clear in what I'm doing and where it's going, and be very disciplined about what I film.