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When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

— Ava DuVernay

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

— Peter Guber

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

— Ryan Gosling

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

— Vir Das

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

— Eddie Murphy

When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when you're releasing your film and promoting your film, you're looking at it in a different way. Then, as you move away from it, you start to look at it objectively and think, 'What could I have done better?'

— Christopher McQuarrie

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

— Kathleen Kennedy

Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

✗Opposing Perspectives

The marketing of my movies is something I have no control over! I usually am shown things to give input beforehand. Some directors get really involved with that, but it's not what I do. I don't know anything about marketing; it's not my skill set!

— Scott Derrickson

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

— Cindy Morgan