Quotes About Creativity

Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.

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.'

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

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

I'm a filmmaker to my bones.

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

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.

When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie.

Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.

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

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

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 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.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

It's harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they're making the movies better, and I think they feel more original, which I always like.

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 want to work with amazing filmmakers and tell important stories, and if I have to audition to do that, I will.

I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.