#filmmaker

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

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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

#alone #awkward #because #being #else

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #back #care #eating #every

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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On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere. ↗

— Jim McKay

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You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#enough #filmmaker #going #good #got

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#door #doubt #feel #filmmakers #greatest

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad. ↗

— Ken Burns

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Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

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