Flaherty defended his work by stating that a filmmaker must often distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

The filmmaker was used to extensive rehearsals before a scene was shot and often found himself shooting a script page one or two hours after Odets had written it.

The film's co-writer Roberto Orci suggested that the IMAX footage would be 3D, but Bay later said that considering himself an " old school " filmmaker, he found 3D gimmicky and added that shooting in IMAX was easier than using stereoscopic cameras.

In 2006, a filmmaker, animator and fan of Williams ' work named Garrett Gilchrist created an unofficial DVD titled The Thief and the Cobbler: The Recobbled Cut, featuring a restored version of the movie he edited himself based on Williams ' original workprint, mixing the original audio track, finished scenes from the released versions, pencil tests, rare footage and pieces of the storyboard.

") posted on his website shortly after the U. S. Presidential Election of 2000, filmmaker and activist Michael Moore argued that Moorehead, not supporters of Ralph Nader like himself, were responsible for the election of George W. Bush.

In 1982, documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage — himself born and sheltered in Le Chambon — returned there to film Weapons of the Spirit, which was released in 1989.

Although he doesn't characterize himself as a gay filmmaker who makes gay films … Haynes ' name has become synonymous with the New Queer Cinema movement and its work to both explore and redefine the contours of queer culture in America and beyond.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau said of himself that he was an impresario of scientists as an explorer and filmmaker who worked with scientists in underwater exploration.

Lewis is a member of a film crew who aspires to become a filmmaker himself.

" The challenge for Ray was to make the subject matter watchable because, according to the filmmaker, " watching people write is deadly dull ... in a film like this, dialogue is what a character is willing to reveal about himself, and the camera is there to capture everything else ".

He figured that Hollywood would never take a chance on an inexperienced, first-time filmmaker, so he decided to make the movie himself.

The history of Walt Disney's association with Lewis Carroll's Alice books ( Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass ) stretches all the way back to 1923, when Disney was still a 21-year-old filmmaker trying to make a name for himself in Kansas City.

Rudolph Cartier ( born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher ; 17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994 ) was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC.

However, Kurtz was highly critical of how Greenwald's allegations relied on " orders, or attitudes, of an unnamed ' they '...", and was critical of the filmmaker for making "... no effort at fairness or balance himself.

Using a first-person narrative style in the form of a " letter " to Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ), the filmmaker explores the parallels and differences between himself — an openly gay man — and the staunchly anti-gay rights public servant.

The filmmaker himself confirmed that, stating: " in all my 11 years as a filmmaker I ’ ve never felt the experience to be so different.

Damon said the filmmaker " should be ashamed of himself " for claiming that soldiers were deceived into supporting the Iraq war and for using his injuries as reason to oppose the conflict.

Erwitt was himself profiled in a documentary film, which appeared in the same festival, titled " Elliott Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs "-directed by Douglas Sloan ( filmmaker ).

The film ends with the police watching a tape George made of himself talking on his video camera about his dream of becoming a filmmaker so he can document his life in hopes that somebody can understand his mentality.

Lynch on Lynch is a book of interviews with David Lynch, conducted, edited, and introduced by Chris Rodley, himself a filmmaker.

There, Rohmer established himself as a critic with a distinctive voice ; fellow Cahiers du Cinema contributor and French New Wave filmmaker Luc Moullet later remarked that, unlike the more aggressive and personal writings of younger critics like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Rohmer favored a rhetorical style that made extensive use of questions and rarely used the first person singular.

It differs from the traditional documentary film, in that its subject is the filmmaker himself or herself.

The movie features the author Anaïs Nin as ' Astarte ', Marjorie Cameron as ' The Scarlet Woman ', and the filmmaker Curtis Harrington as ' Cesare the Somnambulist ', as well as Kenneth Anger himself.

Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Bertolucci released a documentary in 2006, Pasolini prossimo nostro, based on an interview with Pasolini done on the set of Salò in 1975.

That same year, he gave a typically energetic and revealing interview to Canadian filmmaker Damian Pettigrew for Fellini: I'm a Born Liar ( 2002 ), a cinematic portrait of the maestro that was nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards, Europe's equivalent of the Oscars.

James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe, a new video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler ( Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity ) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker, and a new video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor.

The filmmaker also told the Associated Press that if he had managed to secure an interview with Smith during production, then suppressed the footage, General Motors would have publicized the information to discredit him.

In an interview with filmmaker, actor and activist Sean Penn, Raúl Castro was described as " warm, open, energetic and sharp of wit ".

* The documentary film Citizen Black, which premiered at the 2004 Montreal and Cambridge film festivals, traces Black's life and filmmaker Debbie Melnyk's attempts in 2003 to interview Black, and her eventual interview.

Fellow filmmaker BWL Norton, with whom he worked on More American Graffiti, jokingly described Kazanjian as being " like, from Mars " in a 1980 interview.

The release includes audio commentary by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski ; three short documentary films by Kieślowski: Factory ( 1970 ), Hospital ( 1976 ), and Railway Station ( 1980 ); The Musicians ( 1958 ), a short film by Kieślowski ’ s teacher Kazimierz Karabasz ; Kieślowski ’ s Dialogue ( 1991 ), a documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique ; 1966-1988: Kieślowski, Polish Filmmaker, a 2005 documentary tracing the filmmaker ’ s work in Poland, from his days as a student through The Double Life of Véronique ; a 2005 interview with actress Irène Jacob ; and new video interviews with cinematographer Slawomir Idziak and composer Zbigniew Preisner.

Schlosser appeared in an interview for the DVD of Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, having a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker about the fast-food industry.

The personal format is loosely based on an interview with artist and filmmaker Tyler Turkle, and the themes explored include hardship, tragedy and loss throughout the Crews ' life.

Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the official spokesman of Mir-Hossein Moussavi's campaign abroad, told BBC in an interview that Iranian secret police had called Seyed Ali Mousavi several times days before he was shot saying: " We will kill you.

In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker.

In 2005, UCLA scholar Bob Hudson noted in the journal Lingua Romana that French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville "... used the term magisterial in praise of John Huston's The Kremlin Letter ( 1970 ), which he had just viewed the night before the interview.

In an interview published in the Spring 1978 issue of Film Quarterly, Jean Rouch, arguably the most famous and most respected ethnographic filmmaker, is quoted as saying about Trobriand Cricket: “ It's a wonderful film, perhaps one of the greatest anthropological films of recent time .”

What begins as a genuine attempt to get an interview with the so-called ' Iron Lady ' quickly turns into a game of cat-and-mouse in the United States, with the filmmaker snubbed at every turn.

In an interview in Variety Shaw explains, In Zen filmmaking the spontaneous creative energy of the filmmaker is the only defining factor.

Documentary filmmaker Carl Weston believed that " most people in Biggie's shoes would have wanted to at least hurt Tupac " in a Spin magazine interview.

As Cinema Novo filmmaker Joaquim Pedro de Andrade explained to Viany in a 1966 interview:

In an interview with biographer / filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, Welles remarked: " Mine should have been sent back, because I looked like the Statue of Liberty in it.

In celebration of the art and life of this American printmaker and illustrator, independent filmmaker Michael Maglaras of 217 Films produced a new film titled “ O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward .” The documentary features an interview with the artist ’ s daughter Robin Ward Savage, as well as more than 150 works from all periods of Ward's career.

In the book-length interview Hitchcock / Truffaut ( 1967 ), in response to fellow filmmaker François Truffaut's assertion that aspects of the remake were by far superior, Hitchcock replied " Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional ".