Catchy filmmaker names

[CornellOne]

Hello, I've been thinking...I will make a movie in several years, but my name is so unoriginal and forgettable! The most famous filmmakers have the coolest names: Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Dario Argento, etc. Like, nobody else has those names. Then you get a name like mine (e.g., Mike MacDonald; not my real) and somebody searches you on IMDb, and there are like 40 Mike MacDonalds! If you were me, would you invent a new name or add your middle name? I can't imagine inventing a new name, it would be so distant. And adding a middle name would make it too long. Any thoughts?

[EggMcGuffin]

i dunno i think cornell one is a cool filmmaker name. :grin

[writerscut]

I'm sure that when they were young people didn't think that! Once you become famous, any unique name will become cool...

[Manilow in Blue]

If some of those famous directors weren't famous, they would be Steve Speilberg hanging out at the deli, Marty Scorsese sitting in the corner booth at a joint in Little Italy and Dar Argento... doing... whatever a guy named Dar would do.

Are Chris Nolan, Pete Jackson and Barry Levinson any more catchy names than Mike McDonald?


By the way, I loved all your songs with the Doobie Brothers!

[refriedwhiskey]

You don't know me, but I'm your brother.

[HConn]

Change your name to I. P. Freely. They'll remember you.

[Sledgeh101]

I'd go with the name Alan Smithee. It SOUNDS a little boring, but if you use that name, people in the industry will definetly remember you for using that name. You can thank me when you pick up your Oscar.

[yldii]

I share a last name with a successful horror screenwriter & the worlds most well known game show host. You figure it out.

Should I use it?

.........Yldii........