Assistant Quote by Leslie Cockburn

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

— Meagan Tandy

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 first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

— Mathieu Amalric

I was directing as a kid in movies, and that was always my strongest interest. When I was under contract at Universal, I conned…

— Tim Matheson

I've been making movies my whole life pretty much since I was 10 or 12, with my dad's movie camera that he gave me…

— John Wilson

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

— Mike Lookinland

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how…

— Mike Figgis

I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera and how…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

— Todd Phillips

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 was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

— Steven Spielberg

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

— Ori Gersht