Quotes of Filmmaker - somelinesforyou

“ In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ”

- John Carpenter

“ Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner. ”

- Alex Cox

“ A good filmmaker with a wonderful cast can weave an illusionary spell that goes well beyond analysis. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. ”

- Stanley Kubrick

“ I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in. ”

- Nicholas Meyer

“ Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I've never actually watched another director work. ”

- Alan Parker

“ When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level. ”

- Bill Paxton

“ There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too. ”

- Benicio Del Toro

“ My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. ”

- Robert Wise

“ An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ”

- Alejandro Amenabar
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