Quotes About Making

I was impressed that when it came to making 'Rebellion,' they sought out Aku Louhimies, a Finnish director who's part of that new wave of Scandinavian realist drama.

Short films are good, especially since independent films are making waves now, more than before.

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

With public television, they're making things that aren't driven by advertisers. They're one of the only platforms where we can really mine for truth.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

There's a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there's a joy I get from making songs on my own.

When a director is making a movie after four years, it's not considered his comeback. It should be same with actors.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

I'm often asked for advice on how to go about making comedy shows like the begrudgingly accepted 'IT Crowd'.

One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.

I know I'll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you're not willing to admit that you've made them.

I am conscious of making choices that balance the performance and commercial aspects. It's easy to get stereotyped in this industry.

Ultimately, I love everything about making games, but I've come to hate everything about conventional sustainability, and I know I'm not alone.

Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I'd be good at dancing.

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

I think people make it too systematic in a way, like it's a chemistry formula. Food is not like that; food is very forgiving. Connecting and making do with a lot of the food elements can be fun and exciting.

Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.

the process of writing is always a healing process because the function of creation is always, always, the alleviation of pain—the writer's, first of all, and then the pain of those who read what she has written. Imagination is compassionate. Writing is a form of making, and making humanizes the world.1

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

both the making and the unmaking were essential parts of life & necessary to keep the balance.

It was astonishing, I mused, how often people claimed to be honest when they were simply making a virtue of excessive rudeness.

I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.