The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
The kind of filmmaker that I am, even my darker horror films generally are still very fun. And I think that's important for me and the kind of films I make.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.
Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.
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.
As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'
As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.
Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.
I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.
It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
I don't know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.
To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.
I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.
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.
My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.
If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
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.