Quotes About Filmmaking

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.

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

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

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.

It was never really my plan to become 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.

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.

I consider myself as a director's actor, so I'm open to work with filmmakers from across the country and even abroad.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

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

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

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

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

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

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.

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

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.

You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.

We've always wanted to be filmmakers.