#filmmaker

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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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

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I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. ↗

— Michael Moore

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In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

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But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

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I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else. ↗

— Bryan Singer

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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all. ↗

— James Cameron

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