Screenwriter
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James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator and Titanic. To date, his directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$1.1 billion domestically, unadjusted for inflation. After several feature films, Cameron turned his focus to documentary filmmaking and the co-development of the digital 3-D Fusion Camera System. Read the rest of this entry »
Sidney Buchman
Screenwriter and producer Sidney Buchman is notable for his sophisticated comedies such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Here Comes Mister Jordan. Born in Duluth, Minnesota and educated at the University of Minnesota and Columbia, Buchman began his career working at London’s Old Vic theater as an assistant stage director.
He later returned stateside to write a number of unsuccessful plays before heading to Hollywood in 1930 to work as a contract screenwriter for Paramount. Read the rest of this entry »
Frank Oz
Though his place in pop culture was assured in the early 1960s when he began operating and voicing many of the most memorable Muppets – including Cookie Monster, Bert, Fozzie the Bear, and his most famous creation, Miss Piggy – puppeteer Frank Oz established an impressive second career as a director of such eclectic films [...]
Paul Newman
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
— Paul Newman
ALMOST none of the film stars whose mixed fortune it is to become sex symbols in the eyes of the moviegoing public are allowed to age gracefully, but American actor Paul Newman has managed to maintain his matinee-idol status for over 40 [...]
Laurence Fishburne
I’ve played a lot of bad guys, ’cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went “Oooh.”
— Laurence Fishburne
AT the age of 10, Laurence Fishburne made his New York stage debut; at 11, he was a regular on One Life To Live (he played the son of the first [...]
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He is perhaps best known for his long conducting relationship with the New York Philharmonic, which included the Young People’s Concerts series, and also [...]
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films include My Best Friend’s Birthday (1987), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. [...]
Quentin Tarantino
When I’m getting serious about a girl, I show her Rio Bravo and she better fucking like it.
— Quentin Tarantino
IN this age of rampant computer literacy, it is noteworthy that Quentin Tarantino, the much-ballyhooed point man for ’90s filmmakers, still writes the old-fashioned way — using a pen (to be precise, he ritualistically purchases three [...]
Steve Buscemi
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there’s the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.
— Steve Buscemi
STEVE BUSCEMI has been called [...]
David Lynch
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you’re dead.
— David Lynch
THERE’S no living director quite like David Lynch, and for some people, that’s good news. Lynch delivered newspapers to support himself while making Eraserhead, a surreal, often repulsive black-and-white nightmare that became a cult classic. It also piqued Hollywood’s interest. [...]
