A Quote by Famke Janssen

Nobody sets out to make a bad film. — © Famke Janssen
Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

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Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.
Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.
Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions.
When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.
What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.
Nobody engages in a film, regardless of what your job is in it, to make a bad one.
I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that the book lives on no matter what Hollywood does to your novel in terms of a film. Now, you try to be careful who you allow to do your film because nobody wants their novel to become a turkey movie. But, on the other hand, it is a crapshot anyway, because even the best people can make a bad film.
I'm very lucky to say that I worked with a lot of directors who cannot make a bad film. Like when Wim Wenders, they cannot make a bad film. They can make a film people don't like, or it's the wrong moment.
No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.
My last experience of film-making was Tickets, a three-episode film in Italy, the third of which is directed by myself. It's not for me to judge whether it's a good film or a bad film, but what I could say is that nobody had a cultural or linguistic issue with what was produced.
As I talk to film students now especially, I say, "The easiest job you'll ever get is to try to make your first film." That's the easy one to get, is the first film because nobody knows whether you can make a film or not.
When we make a comedy film, its important to have a light atmosphere on the sets so that the mood reflects in the film.
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