Top 1200 Making Movies Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I like working in TV, but my real love is making movies.

Quentin [Taranino] will say, "We've got it, but we're gonna do it one more time. Why?" And then, the entire cast and crew chimes in and says, "Because we love making movies!" He is a person who celebrates this form of expression, and it is evident in his movies, his conversations, his extensive knowledge about the history of what we do, and the actors and crew that he assembles.

A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.

If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.

I'm not making movies for kids or family audiences.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me. I think that finding a character, relating to her and making her as real as possible means forgetting all of that stuff and just trying to find the truth, in that particular character's words.

The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise... No, that's one of the nice things about making music or making movies, is that art does have the power to affect people. I feel really privileged to be a part of that.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

Movies take lot of your time from making to promotions.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

I want to make big movies - but I don't want to have to die a little death every single time I do. Until I meet the people or the studio or the business people who will let me do things a little bit more the way that I need to do them, I probably shouldn't be making big studio movies.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

There's a lot of jobs that you can do that you can be miserable at. Making movies should not be one of them.

I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

For whatever reason, I think we have one type of animated movie and it's so wrong. I want to do a drama, I want to do an action, a comedy. In live-action, there are all sorts of movies. There's independent movies, big movies, action movies, funny movies, and for us we have one movie.

Making movies is like herding cats.

People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

We started making movies in the third grade.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to 'Game of Thrones,' and it was just like, everything I've been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people.

I'm definitely not making movies solely for myself. That's something that I hear people say in the past, all they care about is that they like what they're making. They don't care what other people think. I think that's a disservice to the project and to the people that are working on it.

I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.

We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.

I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.

I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

I think its important for movies to recognize that they are part of a history of movies. I also think that most movies are about movies anyway, even if they're about something else.

I'm happy to keep making Disney movies.

I only believe in making movies with integrity.

Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales.

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

If you are going to be dogged with doubts you shouldn't be making movies.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage band movies." But even the same musicians from garage bands would go to my movies and you could tell what they liked from the way that they dressed and they would be the first ones to walk out.

I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies for 15 years before I did 'Paranormal Activity,' so I was lucky enough to have that experience. So instead of trying to make, like, 'Godzilla' after 'Paranormal Activity,' I said, 'Let's keep making inexpensive movies.'

When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.