Movie Quotes - Page 9

• Growing up I didn't watch movies.

  Denzel Washington

  Growing Up, Watches, Growing

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• There's nothing creative about living within your means.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Inspiring, Mean, Creative

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• I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

  Alex Winter

  Gambling, Different, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

  Alex Winter

  Thinking, Want, Filmmaker

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

  Orlando Bloom

  Adventure, Love Is, Mad

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• When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Worry, Bored, Scripts

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• Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

  Ryan Kwanten

  People, Enough Time, Complaining

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• I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

  Diane Lane

  Mother, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  Abel Ferrara

  Hands, Actors, Starting

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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• You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

  Pia Zadora

  Country, Successful, People

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• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  Lake Bell

  Art, Brain, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Rights, Aggravation, Decline

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• I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

  Lars von Trier

  Inspiring, Thinking, Film Directing

  "Von Trier: 'I am the best film director in the world'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. May 18, 2009.

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• I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

  Christopher Walken

  Successful, Surprise, Made

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• From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Boys, Actors

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• Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

  Dianne Wiest

  Musical, Actors, Woody

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• Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

  Bridgette Wilson

  Husband, Crazy, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Inspiring, Differences, Made

  "Screenwriters on Screenwriting". Book by Joel Engel, 1995.

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• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Vision, Trying, Actors

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• Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

  Banksy

  Inspiring, World, Want

  "Banksy Breaks His Silence on ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’; Hints at Next Film" by Jordan Raup, thefilmstage.com. December 21, 2010.

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Edward Zwick

  Inspiring, People, Challenges

  "Blood Diamond: Interview with Director Ed Zwick". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. November 14, 2006.

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

  Ang Lee

  Understanding, Actors, World

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• Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

  Yahoo Serious

  Voice, People, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

  Tom Stoppard

  Crush, Cameras, Actors

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• I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

  Alain Resnais

  Special, Film, Appetite

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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