#mma

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.' ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#chance #creative #development #emergence #experience

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be thankful #being #benefits #command #earth

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. ↗

— Antony Sher

#british #british empire #commander #completely #day

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#big #big brother #brother #ended #filmmaker

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#commanders #equally #excel #fit #free

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport. ↗

— Joel Silver

#background #creation #filmmaker #i #involved

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#creativity #feature #filmmakers #find #game

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#command #crisis #man #more #than

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#filmmakers #gifted #i #myself #other

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#doing #feel #filmmakers #find #had