Filmmaker Quotes

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

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

You know, I think Chris Nolan is an incredibly intelligent filmmaker, and I think Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredibly talented actor.

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

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

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.