#filmmaker

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#blank #burden #close #colors #dreams

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook. ↗

— Sean Astin

#hook #i #off #phone #pining

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#second-guess #you #yourself

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications. ↗

— Peter Bart

#always #carries #cut #economic #even

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#earlier #evolved #filmmaker #films #how

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut. ↗

— John Cusack

#cut #feel #filmmaker #i #i feel

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

— Bill Forsyth

#experimental #filmmaker #films #i #made

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. ↗

— Spike Lee

#filmmaker #films #i #live #new

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. ↗

— Michael Moore

#education #filmmaker #flint #going #happen