Top 1200 Making Movies Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

I enjoy making feature films, but I'd rather be in a good TV series than mediocre movies.

We didn't go to any summer camps because we just wanted to be making movies and telling stories.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere.

I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.

Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

In America, people really love movies here and it's part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always bigger than movies. It's more art. Movies are more popcorn. Here, movies are really an art form.

I never imagined myself making these big movies and being married and having kids.

I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made movies that are more grand or gorgeous. Every meticulous shot of 'Hard Knocks' is a vision: every slow-motion spiral, every shaved head steaming like a Manhattan manhole cover.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.

I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

After I began in elementary school, I was able to go to the movies, and that was how I would spend my weekends, watching several movies one after another and almost all of them American movies. This is how I fell in love, at so young an age, with American movies and culture.

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The Butler,' to 'The Best Man,' to 'Ride Along,' to even 'Think Like a Man' from last year - these movies are just good movies.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I'm completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much.

The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. I do like these ridiculous monster movies. They're scary, but they're absurd. I had a lot of fun in my 20's, watching a lot of these movies late at night.

If you worry too much about anything, you end up making bad movies.

Making movies, even though it's a business, is also an art, and sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye.