Filmmaker Quotes - Page 9

• I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

  Roland Emmerich

  Scientist

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• A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Editing, Ideas

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• There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Latin, Latino, Right Now

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• Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

  Wim Wenders

  Sometimes, Critics

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

  David Antin

  Together, Kind, Process

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• I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

  David Shapiro

  Film, Made, Shows

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

  Lars von Trier

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

  "Von Trier: 'I am the best film director in the world'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  Samuel Fuller

  Movie, Inspiring, Eye

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• People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

  Ridley Scott

  Play, People, Looks

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• I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Way, Gifted

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• I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

  Anil Kapoor

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• I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Done, Way

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

  Billy Wilder

  Film Directing, Sycophants, Directors

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• The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

  David Remnick

  Beautiful, Jobs, Crazy

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• I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Thinking, Actors, Persons

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• In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

  Ken Burns

  Film Music, Amplify, Want

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• We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Lines, Draws, Knows

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• You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Writing, Phones, Shooting

  "Honor Roll 2012: Matthew McConaughey Wants a Viagra Study, Has an 18 Handicap and Thinks You’ve Got to “Enjoy the Architecture”". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2012.

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• The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

  David Cronenberg

  Unique, Hbo, Television

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• Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Movie, Editing, Directors

  "Watch: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Hugo’" by Casey Cipriani, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2013.

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• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

  John Huston

  Loneliness, Together, World

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

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• I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

  Dagur Kari

  Thinking, Filmmaking, Feels

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Most Chinese filmmakers grew up watching television; they watched films on television, not in cinemas. The scope of their vision is not big enough, they're not yet detail-oriented enough. You have to watch films in cinemas for years to understand the depth and scope of vision needed in filmmaking. Directors in China usually come from an academic background; they graduate as film directors. Whereas the directors from Hong Kong learn their trade on sets, beginning at the lowest rung.

  Gordon Chan

  Chinese, Vision, Graduates

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

  Tim Robbins

  Thinking, People, African American

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