Filmmaker Quotes - Page 17

• In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

  Wesley Morris

  Patience, Perception, Youth

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• I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

  Ava DuVernay

  Issues, Female, Statistics

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• Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Needs, Locks

  "Ava Duvernay ‘My Mic Sounds Nice’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 25, 2010.

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• I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Thinking, Lovers

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

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• Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be said goodbye to. A movie often turns around and looks at you and says, "Here is who I am, and that's maybe now how you see me, but that's who I've become." And you've got to be open enough to go with that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Goodbye, Who I Am, Spheres

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• I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Waiting

  "Bigelow Backstage: ‘Don’t Give Up’" by Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. March 7, 2010.

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• Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.

  Peter Guber

  Heart, Missing, Target

  Peter Guber (2011). “Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story”, p.8, Crown Business

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• I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

  Kevin Smith

  Real, Real Life, Creative

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• I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

  Ken Burns

  Artist, Landscape, Might

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• When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: Why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.

  Jafar Panahi

  Jail, Directors, Doe

  "Strange Bedfellows: Koch and London Critics Heap Praise on ‘King’s Speech’" by Melena Ryzik, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 21, 2010.

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• What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Forget, Who You Are

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

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• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Appetite For Life, Mind

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• Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

  Werner Herzog

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

  Paul Schrader

  Art, Writing, Half

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• It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

  Mike Nichols

  Jobs, Technique, Stories

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• David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

  Adam McKay

  Directors, My Favorite, Great Writers

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• For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

  Tom Six

  Unique, Keys, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not talk about doing.

  Elliot Grove

  Successful, Action, Knowledgeable

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• There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Mean, Differences, Giving

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• It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Kids, Ideas, Want

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• Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!

  Laura Ingraham

  New York, Passion, Office

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• At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

  Francois Truffaut

  Would Be, Firsts, Critics

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• I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

  Andrew Dominik

  Brother, People, Guy

  "Cannes: Andrew Dominik On The Violence, Politics & Look Of ‘Killing Them Softly’ With Brad Pitt". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.indiewire.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

  Rami Malek

  Thinking, Bills, Privilege

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

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• I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Character, Mean, Play

  "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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