Quotes About Creativity

Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.

As a filmmaker what you can hope to do is doing what drives you.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

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.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

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.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

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

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.

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

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

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

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

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.

We've always wanted to be filmmakers.

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.