Quotes About Creativity

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

I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.

When I'm not filming, I do rock n' roll; when I'm not doing rock n' roll, I do filming.

I hate filming in the studio.

Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.

When I am filming a movie, I think I tend to do what I want with my character.

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 nice that I can do what I want with my hair when I'm not filming.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

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

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

When you are in safe hands of a brilliant filmmaker and an ace co-actor, there is nothing to fear.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

I think, as a filmmaker, you're always responsible for your film.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

I'm a filmmaker first, nothing else matters.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.