Quotes About Making

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.

If anyone thinks that I amn't divine He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine But have to drink water and wish it were plain That I make when the wine becomes water again.

Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music.

Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices.

Some people think of me as an actor and some as a movie star, so I sort of guess that makes me both. I love making movies, and I love playing on the stage.

There is going to be a 'Stargate: Atlantis' movie. Unfortunately I'll be making it by myself in my basement.

In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

I don't have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.

As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

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As for the method of making films, I would say that there are no rules as such. The only thing important is that you should have the confidence to do it and have a good story.

Our 'Hot Ones' interview show is all about deconstructing celebrities and making them seem like normal people.

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

There are films of mine that I've seen numerous times and other ones I've been in that I haven't seen at all. It depends on my experience making them.

I have a very distinct memory of 'ExciteBike' and making my own courses. I had an obsession with that game.

Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.

If fate is the law, then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility. It's in our nature. Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making.