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Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
One of the most inventive filmmakers of his generation

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Thierry Frémaux
Thierry Frémaux
The director of the Institut Lumière and of the Cannes Film Festival

I wanted to personally tell you how much your site has enriched my daily life as an artist. I fell in love with film as a kid and remain as passionate about it as the day I started acting so it's great to see what inspired and eloquent detectives you are when it comes to all things cinematic. Bravo.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino
A great actress of the big and small screen

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All filmmaking and film lovers should be following all you do! Thank you and please keep sourcing & fwdg inspiration & direction.

Ted Hope
Ted Hope
Legendary indie producer, Head of Production for Amazon Original Movies Division, Hope For Film

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Nicolas Saada
Nicolas Saada
A former French film journo at the prestigious mag Les Cahiers du Cinéma and a screenwriter who made his directorial debut with Spy(ies)

You guys have been enriching my love for the art of film for a couple years now. To paraphrase James Brooks, you make me wanna be a better artist. Thanks.

Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane
Actor, screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, founder of RAW Studios

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Richard Shepard
Richard Shepard
Director of ‘I Knew It Was You’ and ‘Dom Hemingway’

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Sebastian Gutierrez
Sebastian Gutierrez

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if you love movies you need to be following this blog.

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Richard Botto
Richard Botto
Stage32 CEO

I'm an internationally published author and soon-to-be film director (and really good friends with Paul Schrader) (and, oddly, was engaged to Martin's superb daughter Domenica) and just wanted to say you have created the greatest site on the internet. I'm giving a 20-hour seminar on screenwriting and directing at Pratt here in NYC and will tell everybody to accept your site as their bible. (in fact, it practically renders teaching meaningless!)

Joshua Cody
Joshua Cody
Author of ‘[sic] a memoir’

Cinephilia and Beyond claims to have gotten hold of a 1999 note written by the auteur to fellow filmmaker James Brooks, who helped Anderson fund his first feature-length film, Bottle Rocket, and wrote an introduction to Anderson’s Rushmore screenplay, which was published by Faber & Faber. The note appears to have been carefully handwritten in an all caps and a tone that call to mind one of Anderson’s children protagonists—whose handwritten letters have advanced plots in his films, including Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Moonrise Kingdom.

Cinephilia & Beyond is a must-visit for screenwriters (& film fans).