Top 1200 Movie Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

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

If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.

What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.

This is all so exciting I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, 'You've gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You've gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.' But I can't act like that.

After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That's how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

The Hollywood system has its own problems. Movie making is never an easy job.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

The biggest surprise about making a movie has got to be the wait in between takes.

I love the work that goes into making a movie and creating a different world. It is a wholesome experience.

Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.

The most fun I ever had making a movie was the first 'Incredibles.'

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.

There is going to be a 'Stargate: Atlantis' movie. Unfortunately I'll be making it by myself in my basement.

The most fun part of making a horror movie is watching it with an audience.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.

It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

I made a life-size drawing of King Kong's head which was about eight feet-by- six feet. I tried to measure the head (scaled to other things in the movie I could estimate the size of) that was in the movie in the early '30s, and I liked that I was making something "life-size" that was kind of a fictional thing.

I was fascinated by making a submarine movie, inspired by the Kursk disaster. This idea of being trapped down at the bottom of the sea seemed so terrifying. I was very interested in making a sub film which wasn't a military film. You think, Well, why are they there, then, if they're not in the military? Oh, well, they must be looking for treasure.

Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you.

I'm not a frustrated movie director: I'm not making games because I can't make movies.

With each film of mine, I was learning about the art of movie-making.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

After we finished 'Toy Story 2,' we talked about going right into making 'Toy Story 3,' because we had an idea that we thought had some promise. But there were a bunch of boring contractual problems going on between Disney and Pixar at the time that kept us from making the movie.

It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.

I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

I was watching a movie called 'Perfume.' The book is really good, but the movie is really bad. My friend was making fun of it. He kept calling this obese guy a perfume genius. When I started putting my songs up on MySpace, I didn't know what was going to happen. I actually didn't put much thought into a name and just quickly used Perfume Genius.

When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.

There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.