Quotes About Art

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

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.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

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

We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you're in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.

I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking.

I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

Filmmaking is a very serious job, and I want to concentrate on that.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.