Quotes About Making Films

#1. I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

Connie Stevens

#2. I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

Shane Carruth

#3. The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.

Woody Allen

#4. I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.

Jonathan Demme

#5. If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.

Guy Maddin

#6. 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

#7. The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Stephen Frears

#8. I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

Ian Hislop

#9. Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Jeanne Moreau

#10. You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

Mira Nair

#11. Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

Sam Worthington

#12. 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

#13. That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.

Thomas Bidegain

#14. 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

#15. I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

Neil Jordan

#16. 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

#17. My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.

Rob Zombie

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

Nick Park

#21. At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Gavin O'Connor

#22. Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

Barry Sonnenfeld

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

Tim Minear

#24. 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

#25. I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

Fiona Shaw

#26. I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

Mary Harron

#27. Sometimes being an actor is being a song in someone else's mixtape, so I really understand why more and more actors are making films of their own.

Clark Gregg

#28. Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Elizabeth Taylor

#29. In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

Christian Slater

#30. I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

Tom Shadyac

#31. I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for the studios to let me keep working, but you also want those films to have content that makes you proud you made the film. That's not easy, but it's a fun puzzle to figure out.

Wes Craven

#32. Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

Alfonso Cuaron

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Ryan Phillippe

#35. 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

#36. It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

John Hurt

#37. I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Alice Englert

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

Edward Burns

#39. 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

#40. I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

Busta Rhymes

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

Brett Ratner

#42. A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#43. A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

Neill Blomkamp

#44. I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

Satyajit Ray

#45. 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

#46. I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.

Ava DuVernay

#47. Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Corbin Bernsen

#48. 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

#49. Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.

Kristen Stewart

#50. When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

James Franco

#51. Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside.

Abdellah Taia

#52. Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#53. It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

Guy Pearce

#54. 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

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

Elizabeth Olsen

#56. I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Beeban Kidron

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

Robin Wright

#58. 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

#59. As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.

Denise Duhamel

#60. There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

James Gray

#61. Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and come back to music, try making films and come back to music, write children's books and come back to music.

Madonna Ciccone

#62. I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.

Steve Sabol

#63. I just don't think I'm special because I'm an actor and I never would. Of course I take what I do seriously because I love doing it, and I love being in films and making films, but I don't take myself seriously.

Ellen Page

#64. I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

David Lynch

#65. I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Matthew Macfadyen

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

Andrea Arnold

#67. Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

Spike Lee

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

Tamra Davis

#71. I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman, sitting on the 16th floor of a swank office with a glass window that overlooks the Manhattan skyline.

Sushmita Sen

#72. The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Mike Leigh

#73. 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

#74. After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#75. You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.

Christopher Doyle

#76. I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing ... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

Susan Downey

#77. Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

Sean Lennon

#78. 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

#79. I'm interested in making films that make people think.

Erin Way

#80. If I can still be successful making films and no-one will ever know me, then that would be great. Because we (actors) just like to do what we do. People who are doing it for fame, I don't know if they ever get really successful.

Channing Tatum

#81. One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

Mike Leigh

#82. The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

Howard Shore

#83. I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

David Heyman

#84. I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

Douglas Sirk

#85. We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

Alexander Kluge

#86. I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

Ajay Devgan

#87. The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.

Steve McQueen

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

Richard Linklater

#89. 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

#90. Consistency is very important when you're making films.

Ian McDiarmid

#91. I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.

Michael Pitt

#92. I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.

Nick Love

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

Clint Eastwood

#94. I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

Atom Egoyan

#95. And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Matthew Fox

#96. I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

Nigel Cole

#97. 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

#98. My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

Gregory Hines

#99. 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

#100. I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so ... The more I can, the better.

Alice Braga