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“Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.”

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Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.”

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Author:John Carpenter

“It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.”

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Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven

“It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director.”

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Author:Len Wiseman

“I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.”

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Author:David Gordon Green

“When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.”

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Author:Chris Hegedus