Quotes About Filmmaking

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

I wrote 'Kshana Kshanam' with the one and only purpose of impressing Sridevi. 'Kshana Kshanam' was my love letter to her.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I've always been told that because of 'Main Hoon Na,' a lot of female filmmakers have come up but I maintain that direction is a 'genderless' job.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I like making movies.

I've always been interested in making movies.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I love making movies.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

I love making movies that I want to see made and I want to see on the screen, but I also want to make movies that people enjoy and want to watch.

We started making movies in the third grade.

When you keep things responsible and manageable, you can make some interesting movies that you maybe couldn't make otherwise.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

We could have done it at our studios in England, but the movie would have then started off looking artificial," says Kershner. "We decided to go for reality. Unfortunately, it was Norway's coldest winter in 100 years. That's why you prepare for a film as if you were a prizefighter—I ran two miles a day for months before it, because I knew what to expect.

George would come in and say, 'Hey, we're going to have this giant snow battle, start doing some storyboards,' Ã¢â'¬Â says Johnston. "But there was no script! But George would say, 'Don't worry about that, just do the storyboards.' The process then was to lay out random shots and pick out some that would conceivably work. George would work on the script at home while I would be working on the boards.

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.