#filmmaker

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. ↗

— John Milius

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Everybody's a filmmaker today. ↗

— John Milius

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The filmmakers always have a great level of control. ↗

— John Milius

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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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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies. ↗

— Sam Raimi

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Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. ↗

— Robert Redford

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