Filmmaker Quotes

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. - Sam Mendes

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. - David Cronenberg

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too. - Lena Dunham

You have to improvise all the time. A lot of things come down to the last minute. It will be like that even 10 years from now when we're a huge festival. You have to wait until the last minute to get the new films, to get the filmmaker to commit, to get the actresses to commit. Because of their schedules, they're not able to tell you three months out. It's in flux even now. - Scott Cross

You have to beg, borrow and steal... You have to swallow your pride and be able to ask for help, for money. A lot of people are willing to help independent filmmakers if they think there's a chance they're going to finish their film. - Liz Stubbs

You have filmmakers coming literally from all over the world, from Japan, Germany, Switzerland and more. Because our events go from Boca Raton to Jupiter, they get to see most of Palm Beach County. - Terri Neil

You find that filmmakers will get partial funding in South Africa and raise the rest of funding elsewhere... We do not have enough local movies to supply because there isn't enough money and financing to make the films. - Lindi Ndebele

You don't want to make a big deal out of it because it sounds indulgent. But the fact of the matter is that, for all South African filmmakers, because we don't make a lot of films, you feel an unrealistic pressure that your film has to say so much and has to be about everything in South Africa. - Gavin Hood

You could say I have quite a nice-guy image as an actor and I wanted to do something new, something that might break that mold a bit. I saw how Billy Bob Thornton, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck were suddenly praised because they made films. I don't think you get respect as an actor in this town unless you're Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks. But you get respect as a filmmaker. - Bill Paxton

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. - John Malkovich