Bent Quote by Lisa Immordino Vreeland

I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot…

— Angelina Jolie

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

— Maria Semple

A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the…

— Ava DuVernay

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

— Michael Moore

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill…

— Kevin Macdonald

I really learned a lot when I worked on my grandpa's film 'Twixt' and got to be with him start to finish and sit…

— Gia Coppola

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

— Panos Cosmatos

I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if…

— Lake Bell

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

— Simon Beaufoy

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

— Cynthia Rylant