“Lee was jobless before making 'Pushing Hands' but he made many efforts to prepare himself. Filmmakers here should learn from his experience that success doesn't come right away.”
Steven Tu
“He's one of the few filmmakers that you can learn something from. 'Spider,' 'Dead Ringers,' 'History of Violence,' they're all four-star films. They call for a brave audience. But that's what art is about. It's what discourse is about.”
Walter Chaw
“I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers. But let's speak of them-the would-be filmmakers, the tiny fraction. I've witnessed many times when I've showed films and was present at a screening that exactly those people feel very much encouraged by what I'm doing.”
Werner Herzog
“A good filmmaker with a wonderful cast can weave an illusionary spell that goes well beyond analysis.”
Suzanne Fields
“He's truly one of the great filmmakers, and just a visionary storyteller, ... So to get to sort of be a part of his world for these past couple of films has been pretty amazing. I feel greatly indebted to the man.”
Hayden Christensen
“[With all the hoopla surrounding objectivity in Moore's documentary, the filmmaker actually makes no claim to such a genre.] I don't know if you should call it a documentary, ... I think it's a nonfiction film. It's certainly not made up. Everything you see is real. It actually happened and I filmed it as it happened. But that word, I don't like that word. It has just some bad connotation to it. I set out to make a movie whenever I start one of these. I'm not thinking, 'Oh, I want to make a documentary.' I don't even know really what that means. I like to go to the movies. I go to three or four movies a week. I love going to the movies and I want to make a movie that I would go see. And that's what I set out to do.”
Michael Moore
“The secret code is Tim, ... He's just an amazing guy and filmmaker. He's just so pure and unrelenting and not capable of compromise in terms of his vision. I don't know, we have such a strange language.”
Johnny Depp
