What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

- Antoine Fuqua

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

- Derek Magyar

I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.

- David A. R. White

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

- Colin Trevorrow

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

- Conrad Hall

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

- Bill Forsyth

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

- Bahman Ghobadi

I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

- Bahman Ghobadi

I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'

- Bernardo Bertolucci

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

- Alexandre Aja

As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.

- Ava DuVernay

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

- Andrew Stanton

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

- Andrew Stanton

Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.

- Asif Kapadia

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.

- Allison Anders

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

- Alex Gibney

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

- Anna Deavere Smith

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I'm a filmmaker to my bones.

- Ava DuVernay

Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.

- Ava DuVernay