Best Filmmaker Quotes

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Every Black filmmaker you love, has at least 10 projects that he can’t get made in Hollywood. Sequels that fans scream for, don’t get made because of the system in place. The world is missing out and it’s a shame cause the money is there 10 folds.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor’s capital is his body.

Filmmakers don’t work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don’t last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it’s all about the filmmaker. It’s their vision. They’re the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all.

It’s really interesting to observe each filmmaker’s approach to filmmaking and I feel very fortunate to have worked with a lot of really interesting filmmakers and they all approach their job in unique ways.

I’ve always been a fiction filmmaker and I’ve been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

It has a lot to do with just sort of trust in the relationship that builds between the filmmaker and the subject. There are some people who will never be relaxed in front of a camera, and in some ways that’s my failing as a filmmaker to not put them at ease. It’s also a function of time, and if you have that type of time.

I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

I want to see, that’s all. This is my life. I want to see

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

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It’s shockingly hard.

You have to really be able to trust the director. It’s about the filmmaker and whether or not I’m going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead.

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody’s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

I’d love for there to be a situation – a world in which that’s just not even a question anymore. We are all filmmakers – different stripes, genders, sexual orientations, colors – and our work can be taken on its own terms. I’m really looking forward to that day.

You’re not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It’s everybody involved; it’s a collective effort.

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I’ve worked with doesn’t know how to edit.

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That’s really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly – an oddity.

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That’s a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

The filmmakers that I studied and appreciated growing up are the ones that are able to dictate their vision clearly to each department, and they know the language of how to communicate with each department well enough, so that their vision is clearly transferred to the screen. So I like to spend time on sets learning from all of the departments and seeing how they approach their jobs. It’s not just filmmakers, you know? There’s so many mediums involved. I love learning about all of the mediums.

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

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.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened – but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

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.

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I’m always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I’m at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I’m working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.