Quotes of: Film-making Keyword

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Guy Pearce

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

Mark Haddon

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Ang Lee

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Neil Jordan

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

Bahman Ghobadi

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

Glenn Howerton

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

Gus Van Sant

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

John Cusack

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.

Judy Greer

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

Albert Finney

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.

Anurag Kashyap

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

Elisabeth Rohm

I think that film combines almost every element that makes human life worth living.

Penelope Mitchell

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.

Ted Danson

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

Thandie Newton

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Godfrey Reggio

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

Joe Johnston

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

Edward Norton

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

Eli Roth

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Chaim Potok

While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Henry Selick