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But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.
What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.
Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.
There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.
Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.
I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to that.
The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.
You can understand the integrity of the filmmaker from his camera angles. You can't hide anything from it.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.
I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.
When a filmmaker tries to make a good film and if he gets success in that then definitely it's a nice feeling.
As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".
I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.
I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.
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 always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.
As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.