As a fallback plan, I went to film school and trained as a film director.
"The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director, " he wrote in his memoir.
Laptop backlash poses particular difficulties for people without offices, says Leah Meyerhoff, 29, a film director and free-lancer.
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James Cameron, a film director, flew in to daub his face in red paint, hug an Indian and join the protest.
For her latest trick, she has become a film director, or has, at any rate, made faltering steps in that direction.
According to Billy Wilder, a film director, Frank Sinatra had talent but did not have the discipline to be a great actor.
This year Zhang Yimou, a film director who choreographed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, is to arrange a gala afterwards.
His friend, Marco, a film director, makes it to the top in Italy only to agonise over an offer to work for real money in Hollywood.
"It was almost as if he never existed - I find it utterly scandalous for someone who was so innovative and a film director of international stature, " she said.
Balian depicted him as a fabulist, a liar who made up extravagant stories about being a famous film director, the heir to a South African fortune and a descendant of British royalty.
If one looks at the film's credits, "Beasts" is a film by Court 13, not a film by director Benh Zeitlin, says Mr. Gottwald.
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The combination of a great film from a great director, with great characters and performances in a great story that reminds viewers of some other widely popular films, is no doubt proving to be a winning combination.
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" Whenever William Friedkin was busy with his own career as a film and opera director, she says, "I always felt it was an automatic pass.
But in order to realize his dreams in a solid film, he needs a director, an older man from an upstanding background, with a talent for organization and structure that builds believability, a quality even more important in cinema than in literature.
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In this wondrously accomplished and furiously expressive drama blending the moody rambles of a road movie with the tightly ratcheted criminal tension of a film noir the director Amy Seimetz, in her first feature, captures the wildly flailing energy and exhausted torpor of grinding frustration as well as the flickering grace of stifled dreams.
For a film by a foreign director, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is an incredibly British film.
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He plays Ethan, an independent filmmaker in crisis, whose girlfriend, Claire (Kate Lyn Sheil), is cast in a low-budget horror film by a more successful director (Ti West).
The Shore, a short film by the director, won an Oscar in February.
In his first film as a director, Noam Murro creates moments of strained or comic disconnection relieved by minuscule surges of warmth.
On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis.
For a visual, think of film director Tim Burton and what his home may resemble.
The film earned Campion a best director nomination at the Oscars and she won the Academy Award for best original screenplay.
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Meanwhile the search for a new director for the film festival continues.
Artists taking part in the show include Julian Opie, famed for designing a Blur album cover, film director Ken Loach, designer Zandra Rhodes, Turner Prize nominee Keith Tyson and shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.
He created one of his most fascinating works, "Close-Up" ("Nema-ye nazdik, " 1990), after a cash-strapped film enthusiast presented himself to a family as the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
"The stories that we would really like to tell usually don't get greenlit, " said Rocky Seker, a former creative developer for a director with Sony Pictures and now a film curator who runs Invisible Woman ...
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