Spike Lee
Filmmaker, Actor
"A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there."
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Samuel Fuller
Film Director
"Film is a battleground."
Justin Lin
Economist
"I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue."
Conrad Hall
Cinematographer
"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
Ted Nelson
Computer Scientist
"I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented."
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"I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker."
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"My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker."
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"Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work."
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"Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work."
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"An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control."
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"I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly."
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"I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie."
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"The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers."
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"As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach."
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"As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers."
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"I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food."
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"I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question."
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"Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true."
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"War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly."
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"I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers."
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"Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker."
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"As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life."
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"I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan."
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"As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible."
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"Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that."
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