#filmmaker

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

— Robert Wise

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I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

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I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.' ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#because #chance #day #discovering #driving

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.' ↗

— Drew Barrymore

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Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even. ↗

— Neil LaBute

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As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#because #bring #dad #editing #film

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

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