Funnel Quotes

I don`t quite know what an auteur is. I`ve never quite understood that term, because filmmaking is such a huge team effort, you - I mean, I regard myself as being sort of the final filter, so everything that ends up in the movie is there, because it`s something that I`d think was cool if I saw the film that somebody else had made. I`m very much trying to make the film that I`ve enjoyed, but I`m open to ideas, I need a huge team of people to help me, everybody contributes and I try to encourage people to contribute as much as possible. I think that`s the job of a director really, is to sort of funnel all the creative into one centralized point of view. And the marketing is sort of something that really happens with other people, it`s not something that I`m at all an expert in, and I regard my job at the end of the day as to make the best possible film I can, and that`s really where my job stops and marketing people take over after that.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

We need to figure out a way in which we can block the funnel effect from New Orleans east and then plan such that we can do the same thing on the west bank. Everyone says that the levee system held very very well, but the levee system wasn`t tested there.

It is an outrage for someone to solicit funds from well-meaning Americans eager to lend a helping hand to the victims of hurricane Katrina, only to funnel those donations to something that is nothing more than a racist hate site.

It is an outrage for someone to solicit funds from well-meaning Americans eager to lend a helping hand to the victims of hurricane Katrina, only to funnel those donations to something that is nothing more than a racist hate site, ... Donors to the thousands of legitimate and worthwhile charities providing hurricane relief need to be reassured that their hard-earned dollars are going toward their intended purpose, and flim-flam artists working this tragedy for personal gain will not be tolerated.

We figure we have to sell about 20 funnel cakes to buy one pair of shoes.

Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction