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  • I feel as if I'm just a blue-collar-workin'man picturemaker ; Thanks again my friend!

    bad dreams good nightmares Scott Altmann 2009

  • I am fortunate to have known a few people who were significant in Fleming's life, including pioneer picturemaker Allan Dwan, who essentially discovered Fleming and brought him into the movie business around 1915.

    A Film Career Pulled Into Focus Peter Bogdanovich 2008

  • All of these, like The 400 Blows, were deeply influenced by Truffaut's spiritual father, the great poet-picturemaker Jean Renoir, whom he adored and who loved him, as Renoir would tell me, "like a son."

    What Will Become of the Pundits? 1999

  • That could be due to the restraints on leering imposed by a PG-13 rating, but more because Snyder is a picturemaker, not a moviemaker.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • But as his friend, master picturemaker Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth, An Affair to Remember), put it to me one time: “I have such respect for him.

    The Best Director, Ever 2008

  • This was the same picturemaker for whom Garbo laughed in the irresistible Ninotchka (1939), and Jimmy Stewart lifted his trousers to show that he wasn’t bowlegged at the conclusion of The Shop Around the Corner (1940), probably the warmest, most human romantic comedy ever made.

    The Importance of Seeing Ernst 2008

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