Quotes About Filmmaker

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.

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.

I just trust the director and never overanalyse the script, screenplay, etc. You are just taking a bet at the end of the day, so confidence, be it on the filmmaker or the script, is all that counts.

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

I'm a filmmaker to my bones.

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.

I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.

You can tell so much about somebody by the films they make, and it's only while I approach this do I now realize how much of the filmmaker you can see in their films.

I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career as a feature filmmaker.

Given the kind of filmmaker I am, the kind of experiences I've been trying to give audiences, I was drawn to the potential of VR before I even tried watching anything in VR.

In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.