Assistants Quote by Lauren Greenfield

I am a film person and hence I think big.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a…

— Lee Rich

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor'…

— Leslie Cockburn

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience…

— Bahman Ghobadi

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

— Todd Phillips

I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale…

— David Lowery

I can't afford to wait for big films. So I take up small films as they provide maximum exposure.

— Rakhi Sawant

I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.

— Anoushka Shankar

What I realized is that it doesn't matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it's still…

— James Wan

My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort…

— Raoul Peck

I just gravitated toward (working behind the scenes by) growing up on the different sets and watching my father and other people in their…

— Michael Landon, Jr

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

— Samantha Morton