Quotes of: Film-making Keyword

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

Jenny Holzer

We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Blue Sky to make a feature. But nobody is interested in a film that cost $50 to 60 million with the potential to do $120 million. They want to risk big ...

Henry Selick

I'm interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I'm very interested in how re-visitable we can make films. If we can get them closer to a music album, th...

Shane Carruth

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives t...

Gus Van Sant

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as m...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd...

Mel Gibson

Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can mak...

Mini Grey

Our favorite film is . Amy Eleni and I must watch it seventeen or eighteen times a year, and with each viewing our raptness grows looser and looser; we don't need the visuals anymore--one or the other of us can go into the kitchen halfway through and...

Helen Oyeyemi

With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

Jack Reynor

The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

Robert Richardson

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

Nick Park

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

Phoebe Cates

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

Philippe Falardeau

All I do is watch TV and films, and when I'm not doing that, I'm making them. I need a hobby!

Rebecca Mader

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

Spike Lee

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

Sam Mendes

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Steven Soderbergh

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

Kate Winslet

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

Milos Forman

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

Mathieu Kassovitz

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

Mike Leigh