Experimental Filmmaker Quotes & Sayings

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker. — Len Lye

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

I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as a filmmaker. I went to film school; I was a PA on a lot of projects and I worked so hard, you know, you're young and I learned from different mentors. And luck put me in the position to work with amazing people. One of my mentors by the name of Little X, who took me under his wing after I came out of film school and moved to New York. I worked in videos for Jay-Z, Pharrell to Busta Rhymes and Wyclef. I quickly realized how much I wanted to make films instead of music videos. — Storm Saulter

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out. — Guy Maddin

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. — David Antin

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. — Lynn Shelton