Quotes About Artistry

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

I hate filming in the studio.

You get so deep into something when you are filming, it's almost like writing it again when you are in the edit.

It's cruel to compare two actors working with two different filmmakers on two different characters.

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I'm a filmmaker first, nothing else matters.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

I want to do some bigger films, so long as there's some sort of exciting creative element or a good filmmaker behind them.

Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

My take on it, like a filmmaker or actor, is if you have much more colors within your creation, eventually people will appreciate what you're doing, and the other stuff is secondary, like critiques or even awards or anything else, as long as people enjoy it.

I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.

People say I pick good films. Rather, good filmmakers choose me. The directors come to me, and I thank them for their trust in me.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.