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Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!
Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.
I feel I'm a hammer to the construction worker that is the filmmaker.
Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.
Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.
I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.
I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.
I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.
As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.
Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.
As someone who's been a filmmaker and an editor, I was wary of being on camera.
On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.
As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'
The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.
I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.
What you want, as a filmmaker, is to be obsessed with and fall in love with the material.
All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.
I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.
Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.