There’s nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made – and that’s a tricky balance.
I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones.
The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you’re making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you’re just at the best cinema school ever.
Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It’s so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you’re truly in the moment and you’re feeding each other, it’s such an exciting thing to be a part of.
I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
I don’t actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something – I don’t know.
You’re only making movies for two reasons: Because you have something to say or because you want to entertain people.
I know they call me a crazy lady, but I’m only interested in making movies and having people see them.
I started making movies in 1977, and I didn’t even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the ‘Guiding Light,’ I was like, ‘I’m done with television!’
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
In Bollywood, people have been making movies for more than half a century and they are made in such a way that you need not shed off all your inhibitions.
I’ll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.
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.
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.
There’s a lot of jobs that you can do that you can be miserable at. Making movies should not be one of them.
To be fair, I don’t think it’s a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
Making movies is great. It was like love at first sight; a whole new, different business. I can see why actors love it so much.
I don’t sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I’m a good 100-yard-dash guy.
The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I’m trying to rectify my wrongs.
I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday… that’s something that really means a lot to me, and I know I’ll have the chance to do it one day.
I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.
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 moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn’t have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.
I’m living in Hollywood, and I’m making movies, but it goes beyond me. If my family is not doing very well, or even OK, you want them to be better.
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn’t making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
There’s too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.
I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.
I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.
As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.
I’m very happy in France making movies.
Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I’d like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don’t have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I’m shooting for the middle.
I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
If making movies was easier, there’d be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it’s just a good script, or if it’s just a good producer, that’s not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.
Making movies is like herding cats.
It feels like there are two very different parts to making movies. There’s the making of it and then there’s the putting out of it – and I like the making of the movies a lot more than putting it out into the world.
Somehow, the process of making movies conventionally can dampen creativity because you’ve got to wait in line to do everything the way it’s supposed to be, particularly with actors who are just hanging out waiting for the call.
I’m in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you’re my age, and you’re male, and you’re trying to get work, you’re going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.
Although I love working and making movies and that will always be the priority, I really do love continuing my education. It’s great to be active and learning instead of sitting around waiting for a phone call for the next project.
There’s not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It’s that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway.
We started making movies when we were really young, in the fourth grade… if you can call them movies.
I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.
I’m really proud of ‘Moneyball.’ To me, it’s about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I’m an old man I’ll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That’s all I can really go for: making movies to please me.
It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
I have realised I do not have any back up, or filmi background, or any influential person who is making movies for me. I have to take this journey on my own, and be careful. For me, if I do something wrong, I am not going to get second chances.
If you have the resources, don’t waste your time. Why not continue doing the things you enjoy, such as making movies and taking part in things that the younger generation would like.
There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it’s all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.
We all want to experience that in our lives – a moment when we’re two feet off the ground – and making movies gives you that opportunity. It comes and it goes so fast that it’s unreal, but it does happen.
Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
Since I began making movies, I’ve always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.
Our audience for SCTV was older than today’s moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it’s hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.
You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.
Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.
I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn’t going to be a real parent if I didn’t quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I’d made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
I think that the world of making movies and how movies get made has certainly changed and evolved over the years. So we’re just trying to keep up with it and keep telling our stories in whatever way we can, by hook or by crook.
