Filmmaker Quotes - Page 14

• I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

  Alton Brown

  Film, Knows, Scorsese

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  Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

  Tim Burton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

  Tim Burton

  Thinking, Film, Trouble

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• I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made Ringu, and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.

  Nicolas Cage

  Men, Japan, Hook

  "Nic Cage is still awesomely crazy" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

  James Cameron

  Blue, People, Hollywood

  "Man of Extremes". Interview with Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Real, People, Problem

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

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• Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Trying

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• When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Taken, Risk, Age

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• Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Doubt, Novelists, Cinema

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• I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

  John Cusack

  Way, Aspect, Producers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 27, 2007.

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• I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Independent, Thinking, Cinema

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• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  Beth Ditto

  Artist, Oregon, Perfect

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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

  Lena Dunham

  Different, Scene, Feels

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• You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

  Lena Dunham

  Firsts, Video, Online

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Scripts, Mediocre

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Believe, Important, Firsts

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• I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Here I Am, Goes On

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• I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

  George A. Romero

  Zombie, Easy, Neighbor

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• It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Mentor, Female

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• I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.

  Eli Roth

  Years, Movie Love, Levels

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• I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

  Eli Roth

  Baby, Thinking, Actors

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• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  Zoe Saldana

  Important, Said, Admiring

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• 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.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Categories, Contemporary

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• Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

  Martin Scorsese

  Opportunity, Hbo, Long

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.

  Sean William Scott

  Couple, Thinking, Risk

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