Directors questions

James Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker, philanthropist, and deep-sea explorer. His works are usually big box-office hits, with Titanic and Avatar being the two highest-grossing films of all time.

Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator known for his dark, gothic, and eccentric horror and fantasy films. Burton has worked repeatedly with actor Johnny Depp and with musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but three of the films Burton has directed.

The Departed is a 2006 American crime drama, a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. It was a critical and commercial success and won several awards, including four Oscars. The film also marked the long overdue Oscar for Best Director for Martin Scorsese.

The youngest director of a professionally made feature length film is Saugat Bista from Nepal, who was aged 7 years and 340 days when Love you baba was released in cinemas on 12 December 2014.

Cameron became an expert on deep-sea exploration in conjunction with his research and underwater filming for The Abyss and Titanic. On March 7, 2012, he took the Deepsea Challenger submersible to the bottom of the New Britain Trench. On March 26, he reached the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, and spent over 3 hours exploring the ocean floor before returning to the surface

Giulietta Masina was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She was the wife and muse of the Italian film director Federico Fellini. Half of her Italian films, the most successful ones, were either written or directed by her husband.

Woody Allen is a passionate fan of jazz, featured prominently in the soundtracks to his films. He began playing the clarinet as a child and took his stage name from clarinetist Woody Herman. He has performed publicly at least since the late 1960s.

The full version of the music video for "Bad" was released in August 1987. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and co-starred Wesley Snipes in one of his first appearances. The video, inspired in part by the film West Side Story, shows Jackson and a group of dancers portraying a street gang dancing in a subway station.

"Dogme 95 Manifesto" was created in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterbe These were rules to create filmmaking based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme, and excluding the use of elaborate special effects or technology. It was an attempt to take back power for the director as artist, as opposed to the studio.

Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. Through his eponymous production company Spelling Television, he holds the record as the most prolific television writer and producer in US television history, with 218 producer and executive producer credits.