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Filmmaker Inspirational Quotes (3145)

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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it
Matthew Barney
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I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.
Laurie Simmons
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I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.
Todd Solondz
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I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.
Jim Jarmusch
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Man Ray
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What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.
Guy Debord
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I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.
Anne Fontaine
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In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.
Anne Fontaine
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Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.
Anne Fontaine
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When characters are drifting away from the correct road, or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.
Anne Fontaine
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I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world it's like ours but different.
John Boorman
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I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.
Jim Jarmusch
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You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.
Michal Rovner
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Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.
Michael Moore
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Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.
John Waters
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By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.
Angelina Jolie
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Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures.
Angelina Jolie
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When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.
Angelina Jolie
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There is so much more to understand.
Angelina Jolie
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My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.
Angelina Jolie
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I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
Angelina Jolie
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I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn't want to make people have to jump through hoops to do auditions and be nervous and make them more nervous. I kind of wanted to hire everybody and find something for everybody.
Angelina Jolie
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I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.
Angelina Jolie
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I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.
Angelina Jolie
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