Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Glazer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English director Jonathan Glazer.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Jonathan Glazer is an English film director and screenwriter. Born in London, Glazer began his career in theatre before transitioning into film. Over the course of a career spanning nearly three decades, Glazer's directing work includes feature films, short films, music videos, and commercials.

English - Director | Born: March 26, 1965

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I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

Jonathan Glazer

I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

Jonathan Glazer

I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

Jonathan Glazer

When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

Jonathan Glazer

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

Jonathan Glazer

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

Jonathan Glazer

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

Jonathan Glazer

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

Jonathan Glazer

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

Jonathan Glazer

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

Jonathan Glazer

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Jonathan Glazer

You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

Jonathan Glazer

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

Jonathan Glazer

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Glazer

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