Filmmakers Quotes

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 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 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

Work by conservative filmmakers is very hard to find. - Jeff Rubin

When you look at 2005, which overflowed with remakes and sequels, I think that the Academy recognized that the best films came from independent filmmakers not the big studios. - Gitesh Pandya

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.' - Drew Barrymore

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen. - Terrell Falk