The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.
I don't really like movies that are all one or the other. It's really about the play between both of them. Now that I've said that, there's actually lots of movies that I like that are one or the other but it's just not for me as a filmmaker.
I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.
I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
I needed to do a lot of saying no. I had a lot of [interest] from people who I just didn't think were quite right for it. And I didn't want a bad film to be made of the book, either a sentimental one or a creepy one, so I did a lot of, "No thank you. " Then when the right filmmaker came along, yes, I suppose I presented myself very much as wanting to be the writer.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.
Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.
What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?
I consider myself an independent filmmaker.
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.
Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.
The filmmaker is not telling you what to think.
I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.