Filmmaker Quotes - Page 10

• Film is a battleground.

  Samuel Fuller

  Film, Battleground

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

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• I steal from every movie ever made.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Stealing, Made, Movie Director

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• When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

  Bill Paxton

  Movie, Inspiring, Competition

  "Bill Paxton - No more days of 'Hey, aren't you Chet?'". Interview with Jonathan Litt, tech.mit.edu. May 02, 1997.

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• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  Cameron Crowe

  Movie, Inspiring, Real

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• Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

  Jacques Rivette

  Odd

  "Tributes to French New Wave Master Jacques Rivette, Dead at 87" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

  Bill Forsyth

  Actors, Film, Made

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• As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

  Gren Wells

  Want, Audience

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Looks, Studios

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• Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

  Johnny Depp

  Cutting, Film, Shots

  "Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Rob Marshall and Jerry Bruckheimer Interview PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 17, 2011.

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• If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

  Werner Herzog

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ifs

  "A Conversation With Werner Herzog, Part II: Cave of Forgotten Dreams , Avatar , & the Hostility of Nature". Interview with Govindini Murty, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2011.

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• I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

  Roger Ross Williams

  People, Stories, Activist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Michael Glawogger

  Beautiful, Platonic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.

  Ann Macbeth

  Independent, America, Enough

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• The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

  Otto Schily

  Istanbul, Years, Community

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• France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  France, Given, Best Film

  Source: gubelette.tumblr.com

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• As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I was intrigued by Afghanistan, with its literature and poetry, its old land and its deep history.

  Pietra Brettkelly

  Land, Literature, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I dream for a living.

  Steven Spielberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Time Magazine, July 15, 1985.

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• 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 film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.

  John Hurt

  Independent, Should Have, Matter

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

  Q-Tip

  Stories, Sound, Turns

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• Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Powerful, Character

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• A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club's a film. I think that Fight Club is more than the sum of its parts, whereas Panic Room is the sum of its parts. I didn't look at Panic Room and think, "Wow, this is gonna set the world on fire". These are footnote movies, guilty pleasure movies. Thrillers. Woman-trapped-in-a-house movies. They're not particularly important.

  David Fincher

  Fighting, Thinking, Fire

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

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.

  Martin McDonagh

  Years, Ideas, Two

  "Martin McDonagh on the violence and camaraderie of his Seven Psychopaths". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2012.

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• When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

  Kabir Bedi

  Years, Three, Needs

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It's very different from European filmmaking, because here it's like a real industry. It's very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it's very expensive to make movies.

  Baran Odar

  Lying, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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