“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
“[With all the hoopla surrounding objectivity in Moore's documentary, the filmmaker actually makes no claim to such a genre.] I don't know if you should call it a documentary, ... I think it's a nonfiction film. It's certainly not made up. Everything you see is real. It actually happened and I filmed it as it happened. But that word, I don't like that word. It has just some bad connotation to it. I set out to make a movie whenever I start one of these. I'm not thinking, 'Oh, I want to make a documentary.' I don't even know really what that means. I like to go to the movies. I go to three or four movies a week. I love going to the movies and I want to make a movie that I would go see. And that's what I set out to do.”
Michael Moore
“You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.”
Sam Mendes
“The secret code is Tim, ... He's just an amazing guy and filmmaker. He's just so pure and unrelenting and not capable of compromise in terms of his vision. I don't know, we have such a strange language.”
Johnny Depp
“He's truly one of the great filmmakers, and just a visionary storyteller, ... So to get to sort of be a part of his world for these past couple of films has been pretty amazing. I feel greatly indebted to the man.”
Hayden Christensen
“A good filmmaker with a wonderful cast can weave an illusionary spell that goes well beyond analysis.”
Suzanne Fields
“I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers. But let's speak of them-the would-be filmmakers, the tiny fraction. I've witnessed many times when I've showed films and was present at a screening that exactly those people feel very much encouraged by what I'm doing.”
Werner Herzog
