Filmmaker Quotes - Page 25

• I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

  Jørgen Leth

  Struggle, Men, Alive

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Believe, Thinking, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team to distribute your film.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Team, Thinking, Advice

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

  Reginald Hudlin

  Ideas, States, Currents

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers and better negotiators with cops who wanted to shut me down. You have to get creative.

  Negin Farsad

  Creative, Challenges, Boring

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Important, Stories, France

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Country, Stories, France

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Independent, Differences, Magic

  Source: deadline.com

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• In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

  Sean Penn

  Mean, Rights, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

  Tilda Swinton

  Years, Needs, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

  Tilda Swinton

  Collaboration, Whole, Do The Best

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.

  Tilda Swinton

  Encouragement, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

  Peter Jackson

  Character, Needs, Scene

  "Peter Jackson Talks King Kong and Halo!". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. December 9, 2005.

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• Any filmmaker, big directors, and I'm not dropping any names - I actually have couple names I want to say, but I will not - we have a ratio. Each thing you repeat, my ratio is one to four.Actually some people are ratio one to 34. I know couple directors, big directors, they are just shooting over and over.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Couple, Names, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.

  Rania Attieh

  Unique, Race, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

  Michael Pitt

  Interesting, Cameras, Digital

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Being a black filmmaker, one of the things I wanted to do with the movie is make sure I told it from a different perspective. I wanted to take myself out of it as a black male. I wanted to look at this movie through the eyes of Tully, to understand what he was thinking, and feel what he was feeling as much as I could.

  Deon Taylor

  Eye, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Past, Thinking, Ignorant

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• I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

  Atom Egoyan

  Believe, Maturity, Firsts

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• I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society

  Susanne Bier

  Depressing, Thinking, Important

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• F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.

  Rex Reed

  Fake, Gestures, Ineptitude

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• When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.

  Andrea Arnold

  New York, Independent, Home

  "Director Andrea Arnold On Her Next Film: 'It’s Going to Involve Lots of Wild Kids, Rihanna and a Bear'". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, blogs.indiewire.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.

  Karen Walton

  Art, Couple, Drama

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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