Quotes About Filmmakers

I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.

I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

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

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.

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'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.

I think a lot of black filmmakers have done very well.

A lot of independent filmmakers are really catty.

I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.

When dealing with HBO, you actually are dealing with real filmmakers.

I've been lucky in my career. I've worked with some of the greatest filmmakers and actors around. I'm so proud of some of my work.

I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.

I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.

I think it's really hard for filmmakers to adapt books.

When you get an opportunity to work in good films like 'Raazi,' it boosts your confidence to know that good filmmakers are willing to work with you.

I feel lucky to be able to work with such great filmmakers on such wonderful stories.

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.

I have always said some of the finest filmmakers in the country have come out of Bengal.