Quotes About Making

I'm a free safety. The one responsibility I have is making the play, really. So I take those chances.

Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They'd much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

Creation is always in the dark because you can only do the work of making by not quite knowing what you're doing, by walking into darkness, not staying in the light.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Sun shines above making diamonds of lightTink-tinkling, tap dancing, and bright.