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When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. -- Lindsey Buckingham
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50. -- Dana Carvey
Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. -- Eric Roberts
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. -- Tom Hanks
The Hollywood system has its own problems. Movie making is never an easy job. -- Ryuhei Kitamura
Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium. -- Rebecca Romijn
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. -- Ang Lee
Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything. -- Albert Brooks
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark. -- Gordon Willis
Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge. -- Steve Pink
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal. -- Alexander Payne
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such. -- Robert Rodriguez
It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not. -- Kevin Smith
There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later. -- Sidney Lumet
I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist. -- Roman Polanski
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making. -- Eckhart Tolle
I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie. -- Jay Cassidy
We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones. -- Gerald Caiafa
We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones. -- Gerald Caiafa
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money. -- M. Night Shyamalan
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America. -- Aunjanue Ellis
The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything. -- Joss Whedon
It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies. -- David Gordon Green
There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up." -- Bruce Willis
The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience. -- Joel Silver
Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he's made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it's very hard to ignore what he's done to them.I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself. -- Philip Pullman
The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.' -- Ben Hecht
One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game. -- Tucker Max
Making a movie is casting a spell. -- Kenneth Anger
You become the movie you are making. -- Ang Lee
Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie. -- Joseph Kosinski
Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie. -- Ralph Lauren
Making a movie is a lot of problem solving. -- Gia Coppola
Just making a good movie is hard to do. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
There are so many decisions in making a movie. -- Rick Baker
I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum. -- Don King
If nothing else, I'm making a movie that I'll enjoy. -- Zach Braff
I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie. -- Duncan Jones
I think of making a movie in such a romantic way. -- Alexandra Cassavetes
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie -- Stanley Kubrick
Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie? -- Koushun Takami
Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality. -- Juan Diego Solanas
The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. -- Alexander Payne
Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. -- Jodie Foster
Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them. -- Clint Eastwood
The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally. -- Catherine Keener
I felt my heart expanding, making room for him to movie in permanently. -- Cecily White
Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts. -- George Lucas
I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process. -- Matthew McConaughey
The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams. -- Maggie Carey
Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems. -- Marguerite Moreau
Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart. -- Grant Bowler
I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie. -- Dwayne Johnson
There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie. -- Warren Beatty
Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected. -- Jason Schwartzman
Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. -- Morten Tyldum
I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker. -- Melissa George
Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. -- Clive Barker
If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them. -- Lorenzo di Bonaventura
This is all so exciting I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years. -- George Burns
One of the great things is, you're never a producer unless you're making a movie. -- Rick McCallum
You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important. -- Gary Ross
I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing. -- Noah Baumbach
Making a movie is so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do. -- Miranda July
I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future. -- Adam Carolla
If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers. -- Carol Alt
Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship. -- Mel Brooks
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. -- Sam Mendes
I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character. -- Elisha Cuthbert
What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER. -- Dave Thomas
I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls. -- Judd Apatow
I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do. -- Juliette Binoche
For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day. -- Hayden Christensen
Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop. -- Beeban Kidron
It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget. -- Ti West
But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie. -- Eli Wallach
Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. -- Jon Favreau
You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie. -- Bruce Greenwood
I think if anybody is making a movie about your life something pretty incredible had to happen. -- Miles Teller
I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones. -- Melanie Laurent
God knows if you could start a new sex act that's more important than making a good movie. -- John Waters
If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. -- Michael Moore
Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script. -- Robert Friedland
I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too. -- Arthur Hiller
Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out, -- Lou Ferrigno
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. -- Abel Ferrara
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. -- Pauline Kael
The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change. -- Manohla Dargis
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know? -- Joel Edgerton
I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies. -- Gaspar Noe
My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'. -- Katie Chang
My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like Spy Kids. -- Katie Chang
I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for. -- Christian Bale
When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me. -- Amber Heard
Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see. -- Nicholas Meyer
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie. -- Tom Hanks
That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you. -- Brian McGinn
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways. -- Tony Scott
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. -- Julian Schnabel
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. -- Alanis Morissette
Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well. -- Josh Peck
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. -- Bill Forsyth
I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it. -- Tarsem Singh
When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure. -- Tony Krantz
I enjoyed working with everyone on the cast [of the Ghost Team]. We knew we were making a pretty weird movie. -- David Krumholtz
Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie! -- James L. Brooks
If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character. -- Ryan Gosling
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'. -- Jake Abel
When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out. -- Mark Waters
When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor. -- Michel Hazanavicius
The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm. -- Kate Winslet
At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody. -- Steven Sebring
Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make. -- Todd Solondz
Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner. -- Michael Eklund
Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start. -- Nigel Cole
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. -- Steven Spielberg
I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet. -- Adam Brody
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. -- Julianne Moore
After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work. -- Jordi Molla

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