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• I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

  Alexander Payne

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• I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

  Jonah Hill

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• As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It’s about the work and only the work.

  George Hickenlooper

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• Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

  Todd Haynes

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• As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

  Michael Haneke

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• Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff – five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I’d find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

  Danny Strong

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• Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can’t quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• It’s rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting – well, they don’t see that too often.

  Robert Rodriguez

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• My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

  Spike Lee

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• I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I’m a New York filmmaker.

  Spike Lee

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• What I learned is, don’t forget who you are, because that’s what’s going to make you a filmmaker.

  Antoine Fuqua

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• My experience of test screenings is that you don’t know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says – and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.

  Antoine Fuqua

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• Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it’s like discovering a filmmaker who you’re taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, ‘I’m so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.’

  Drew Barrymore

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• I love directing scenes that I’m not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

  Lena Dunham

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• The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

  Peter Jackson

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• To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

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• The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that’s why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It’s not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

  Tom Cruise

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• It’s more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren’t formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who’ve told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

  Cameron Crowe

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• As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I’m trapped in a genre that I love, but I’m trapped in it!

  George A. Romero

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• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  Walter Moreira Salles Jr.

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