Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludivine Sagnier

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Nina Jacobson

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

Ridley Scott

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

Brian Miller

The most successful (Austin) filmmakers are intensely loyal. The people who do well here tend not to go off to LA. They stay here.

There are more Latino movies, made by Latino filmmakers and more people interested in Latino cinema.

Distributors and filmmakers like me can see their films with real human beings.

We were interested. There was not a lack of co-operation from us. But the filmmakers got sponsorship from Adidas - not Reebok. And Adidas sponsor Newcastle, while Reebok sponsor Liverpool.

David Twohy

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.

James Ransone

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

Jeremy Thomas

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

Meeting all the other filmmakers has been such a blessing,

Colin Trevorrow

I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,

Louis Leterrier

I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.

Dennis Farina

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.

Charlize Theron

It's our job as filmmakers to reflect the world right now, and this year has proven that you can make these movies and make them not taste like medicine.

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

Adriana Barraza

In Mexico, there are good filmmakers, but they didn't always have the opportunity to show their work. But since 'Amores Perros,' many of these filmmakers had the opportunity to show their films, and they have a newfound energy for cinema.

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

Christopher Nolan

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

Ciaran Hinds

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.