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There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance — Michel Hazanavicius
It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the… — Michel Hazanavicius
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as… — Vincent Canby
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… — Bruce Conner
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… — Bryan Singer
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being… — Mike Figgis
For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about. — Laura Ziskin
The filmmakers always have a great level of control. — John Milius
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… — Joel Silver
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me. — Carter Burwell
Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious… — Peter Bart
Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers. — John McTiernan
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious. — Sadie Frost
Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion… — Unknown Author
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage… — Andrzej Wajda
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. — Alan Parker
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… — Jay Roach
It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with… — Unknown Author
Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as… — Vito Russo
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker. — Peter Greenaway
It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands… — Peter Greenaway
My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes. — Peter Greenaway
Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary… — Peter Greenaway
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible… — Peter Greenaway

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