25 Film-Makers Quotes for You to Enjoy

Wildlife film-makers I know tell me that the effort to portray what looks like an untouched ecosystem becomes harder every year. They have to choose their camera angles ever more carefully to exclude the evidence of destruction, travel further to find the Edens they depict. George Monbiot

Me Travel Destruction Year Every Carefully Wildlife Evidence Further Tell Find Angles More Exclude Like Ecosystem Know Untouched Looks Becomes Camera Effort Depict Choose Ever Harder Portray Film-Makers

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us. Abbas Kiarostami

In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one. Bill Viola

Witness Bad Critics Between Understand Got Doing Were Lot Reviews Either Video Actual Film-Makers

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. Dan Aykroyd

Time Unknown Quantities Makers Go Offers Get Experiments Film Film-Makers

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles. David Cage

Inspired David Welles Scott Ridley Scott Orson Welles Film-Makers

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. David Fincher

Made Both Audience Movie Film Film-Makers

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. David Hare

Great Thinking Films Our Waving Once Introduced Some Simply Days Most None Came America Fiction Which Interesting Us Farewell Europe Shows Now Film-Makers

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them! Frank Capra

Advice Young Trends Follow Them Start Film-Makers

What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of? Karyn Kusama

World Took Some Like Look Afraid Might Film-Makers Chances

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity. Mike Leigh

Integrity Will Become Own Our Danger Compromise Colonial Remain Never True Maintain Industry Principles Real Revival Hollywood Should Film Servants Film Industry Film-Makers British Need

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that. Peter Jackson

You Made Fall Films Too Other Other Countries See Directors Hack Countries Come Makers Get Often Being Want Interesting Hollywood Then Who Original Film Homogenized Here Film-Makers

I think we're going to be very embarrassed in a few years when we see a lot more women film-makers. People will look back and ask, 'How did it take so long for you to figure this out?' Phil Lord

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects. Rajkumar Hirani

Good People Greedy Good Stories Subjects Want Stories Film-Makers

When I began my career, I had films with the biggest film-makers in the country. Raveena Tandon

Country Films Had Began Biggest Career Film-Makers

I saw experimental film-makers teaching in college. They did what they wanted and didn't worry about the market, but the circumstances ended up offering me other possibilities. Todd Haynes

Me College Other Market Saw Worry Circumstances Possibilities About Up Offering Did Ended Wanted Experimental Teaching Film-Makers

Let film-makers take a call about what films they want to do. Varun Dhawan

Films About Take Call Want Film-Makers

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens. Walter Salles

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. Wole Soyinka

Mere Makers Scraping African Film Film-Makers

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