Films Making Quotes

#1. There's so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money.

Lynn Shelton

#2. I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

Jonas Mekas

#3. The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

William Friedkin

#4. I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#5. When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

Philippe Falardeau

#6. I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

Jehane Noujaim

#7. There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will give it one-and-a-half star rating. That's fine. There's no issue because stars will matter when I'm planning to open a five star hotel. When I'm making films, I don't need stars.

Rohit Shetty

#8. I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

Elia Kazan

#9. Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

Kelly Blatz

#10. I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

Winona Ryder

#11. An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.

Cary Fukunaga

#12. I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

Michael Winterbottom

#13. Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate.

Simon Pegg

#14. I was still making movies so it wasnt as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldnt find distributors.

Linda Fiorentino

#15. I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

Richard Linklater

#16. Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Mira Nair

#17. It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

Clint Eastwood

#18. I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

Bryan Singer

#19. We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

Atom Egoyan

#20. When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

Paul Mooney

#21. I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.

Lucy Walker

#22. I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a place for polemics, but I don't think that it is in fictional cinema. Fictional cinema works subtly and deeply.

Sally Potter

#23. Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

Bahman Ghobadi

#24. It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

William Fichtner

#25. The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#26. While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Henry Selick

#27. A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.

Mike Leigh

#28. I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Juliette Binoche

#29. Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

Andrew Dominik

#30. Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.

Wong Kar-Wai

#31. Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.

Francois Truffaut

#32. I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

Ira Sachs

#33. Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

Brit Marling

#34. The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

Steven Spielberg

#35. I feel like in Australia, all the films I've done, we're all equal moving parts in this equation of making the film - an actor is another crew member, essentially.

Emily Browning

#36. A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

Max Tundra

#37. You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

John Lasseter

#38. I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it ... and a bit of confidence maybe.

Dexter Fletcher

#39. I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.

Rory Kennedy

#40. Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

Sean Durkin

#41. I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.

Mordicai Gerstein

#42. I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

George Clooney

#43. I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

Renny Harlin

#44. And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

Rick Moranis

#45. Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

Roger Corman

#46. Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

George Clooney

#47. When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

Edward Norton

#48. There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

Renny Harlin

#49. I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.

Matthew Lewis

#50. For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

Andrea Arnold

#51. Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

Joel Siegel

#52. I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

Steven Soderbergh

#53. When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Peter Weir

#54. I hope to be making television shows and films, and creating content that captivates Latinos. I try not to think about it too much, though. I'm more focused in the present.

Jon Huertas

#55. Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

David Lynch

#56. One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

Paul Mazursky

#57. In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Jehane Noujaim

#58. My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

Phil Daniels

#59. I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

Ira Sachs

#60. People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.

Mike Leigh

#61. I'm excited that 'The Good Guy' is getting distribution because indie movies they're not - people ran out of money and they're not making these movies anymore. It's all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.

Bryan Greenberg

#62. I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

James Franco

#63. Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on our free time. The history of making films in Scandinavia is so old, it's like the oldest. The Nordic film industry started before Hollywood in Stockholm in Copenhagen.

Michael Nyqvist

#64. As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

Andrea Arnold

#65. My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

Trey Parker

#66. There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

Lili Taylor

#67. I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

Stephen Frears

#68. I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

Adam Shankman

#69. Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Robin Wright

#70. I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

Asif Kapadia

#71. My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

Elizabeth Olsen

#72. If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

Stanley Kubrick

#73. I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.

Cary Fukunaga

#74. In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.

Mads Mikkelsen

#75. Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

Sydney Pollack

#76. I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#77. Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

Ludivine Sagnier

#78. Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.

Joseph Kosinski

#79. In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.

Riz Ahmed

#80. Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

Fatih Akin

#81. Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Ratner

#82. Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

Jeff Bridges

#83. I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

Edward Burns

#84. When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.

John Madden

#85. When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.

Danny Kaye

#86. I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

Ryan Phillippe

#87. I stopped making films to look after animals.

Brigitte Bardot

#88. The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Guy Pearce

#89. Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.

Christopher Lee

#90. I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

Tim Minear

#91. Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. 'Don't do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.'

Jackie Chan

#92. I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

Caity Lotz

#93. I would love to see more diversity on all sides, and not just in terms of women; we need people from different walks of life making films.

Sarah Gavron

#94. Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.

Clint Eastwood

#95. I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

Jonathan Demme

#96. Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids.

Pete Docter

#97. The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#98. I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.

D. A. Pennebaker

#99. While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of 'Flying Down to Rio' and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.

Ginger Rogers

#100. I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster