297 Filmmaker Quotes for You to Enjoy

As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen. Peter Jackson

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To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. Peter Jackson

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Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living. Peter Landesman

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I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like. Peter Mullan

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker. Peter Weir

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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement. R. J. Cutler

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Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker. Rajiv Menon

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I think I have underperformed as a filmmaker. Rajiv Menon

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I'm a filmmaker first, nothing else matters. Rajkumar Hirani

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That's a battle we are always fighting whenever we cut trailers or promos for films. We always wonder how much to say, and every filmmaker wants to say the minimum. You don't want to reveal your film and ruin the viewing experience. Rajkumar Hirani

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Attenborough's 'Gandhi' shook me as a filmmaker. Rajkumar Hirani

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The point is that a filmmaker is like a journalist in projecting reality in the true sense of the word. Only thing is he dramatically packages it to make more effect. Ram Gopal Varma

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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast. Randeep Hooda

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Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location. Richard Roeper

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I think that, as a filmmaker, you're always making the same film, regardless of how many different stories you tell. This is the case for me, whether I'm making documentaries or fiction films. Rithy Panh

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Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. Robert Redford

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist. Roland Emmerich

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I'm only a stupid filmmaker. Roland Emmerich

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