I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely…

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

— Joe Wright

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

— Andrea Arnold

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is…

— James Nesbitt

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive,…

— Claude Chabrol

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is…

— Gus Van Sant

I will do films I want to make. I will never make a film for commerce.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get…

— Markus Zusak

People will watch your film only if it's good. Another star's flop won't make your film a hit. So my race is with myself.

— Allu Arjun

It's easier to greenlight your own films when you're not surrounded by other people aspiring to make films. You have to work a little…

— Matthew Porterfield

I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then…

— Ryan Gosling

When you make a film, you will either make money or won't.

— Parineeti Chopra

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore…

— Jonas Mekas

I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably.

— Antara Mali

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

— Federico Fellini