#maker

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. ↗

— Michael Moore

#filmmaker #i #main #mean #motivation

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. ↗

— Tecumseh

#fortune #i #i am #maker #my own

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

#difficult #doing #filmmaker #french #honoring

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

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. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#could #felt #field #filmmaker #going

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

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#deserves #filmmaker #gets #gifted #i

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience. ↗

— Jay Roach

#another #commentary #experience #filmmaker #films

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy. ↗

— Jay Roach

#comedy #commentary #commentator #criticism #disk