I just make films that attract me.

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

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an…

— Wong Kar-wai

I just make my Boosie music and that puts me in my own lane.

— Boosie

Don't cut out things you like - it will just make you miserable.

— Gregg Wallace

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make…

— Tom Rachman

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate…

— Ryan Gosling

We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films.

— Shoojit Sircar

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

— Gavin O'Connor

In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.

— Arielle Kebbel

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

— Henry Selick

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave.

— Claude Berri

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And…

— Mira Nair

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

— Claire Denis

Hollywood's never been that appealing a world to me. It's just not my thing. I, just as a dummy, thought that was the only…

— Kelly Reichardt