Posted by mlc at authorized_proxy6.cogeco.net on February 23, 2004 at 17:00:20:
In Reply to: A film by Kevin Smith posted by Ecstatica on February 23, 2004 at 14:24:33:
... when jean-luc godard made films under the name "the dziga vertov group" because he believed that film is a collaborative medium and he was tired of getting credit when so many other people were involved in the making of his pictures.
i always assumed, and was lead to believe, that was why there was never "a film by" credit. but i'm not going to say that because no-one can speak for the man but himself.
i agree with not using the credit though. reason being that i don't think it's ethical to direct a film that was written by another person, and developed by a group of people, and claim is as "a film by."
but that's just me.