#maker

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#award #awards #because #consider #creating

The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here. ↗

— David Plouffe

#advantage #afford #along #american #american people

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ceased #fate #makers #our #pose

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

#ever #filmmakers #i #kid #making

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up! ↗

— Rachael Ray

#cheese #diner #eat #everyone #everything

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

#confused #corporate #end #entertainment #excess

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#because #comments #did #drama #get

Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#because #been #chicago #early #filmmaker

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts. ↗

— Bruce Conner

#arts #became #being #couple #dabbled

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#better #filmmakers #get #great #i