Top 1200 Making Movies Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I never intended or planned on making a YouTube Channel. I always thought that it was meant for Bollywood movies, trailers, and songs.

Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be coherent when I am working.

I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

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

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.

I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

What I never want to do is start phoning it in and making things just to show that I can keep my foot in the door and do big movies.

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.

My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.

I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it.

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

You become trapped doing bad movies. And, the thing that makes it difficult to stop making them is that you get good money.

One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies.

I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

I have always been really picky about the films that I make, because I think that there's such an incredible opportunity to bring up questions when you're making movies, and some of my favorite films bring up big questions. They are movies that, when you walk away from it, it hits you as something deeper, and it's a great, fun way to be able to bounce around some of these harder concepts in our heads.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else's script.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

My favorite movies are movies from the '70s, like 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and to me, 'Hereditary' seemed like it fit in with those movies, and it was just horrifying. It seemed like it took the things that I love about movies and really fleshed out characters.

I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

I like making mini-movies rather than just three-minute, place-the-champagne-here-for-sponsorship videos.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

I haven't acted in 10 years. I always talk about being an actor, and yet I've been focusing on making movies for a long time.

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

I feel I am incapable of making Hindi movies. But I don't mind acting in them just to earn my bread and butter.

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also the most rewarding.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

I like making movies that have some of the qualities of first-person shooter games. That was very important to me for the 'Bourne' franchise.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.

I love to watch entertaining films with larger than life characters and hence enjoy making such kind of movies.

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.