Quotes About Filmmaker

I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character.

'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

I think it's great to be talked about as a woman film-maker. It's part of who I am; it affects me daily. I want it to be part of the conversation. I'm for any scheme or initiative that gives women a way in.

My favorite filmmaker is Frank Capra. He talked about the redemption of the human spirit - not the superhero, but the common man.

The image - its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism - has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist

The filmmaker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist.

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

It's always better to work with a good filmmaker. It makes a lot of difference with the presentation of the film, which matters a lot at the end of the day. But I don't really concentrate on only big names.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions.

I never set out to build some behemoth comedy career. My taste in movies is far more eclectic than that so my aspirations as a filmmaker are far more eclectic than that.

One of our film lecturers, one of the guys teaching the course, said to the departing film class, 'No one in this room is going to make it, as a filmmaker.' I have no idea why he said that.

I've produced two docs for Cameron Crowe, and I've always loved him as a filmmaker.

The only way a first-time filmmaker could have convinced or can convince a producer is if he has a fantastic script.

As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.

I think most of the times there is a disconnect between audience and filmmakers.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.

I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.