Make Film Quotes

I make film to make time pass.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.

— Jehane Noujaim

It's such an intense thing to make a film.

— John Hillcoat

You can only make the film that's in you.

— Farah Khan

It's criminal to make a film and not see it release.

— Sudha Kongara

I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.

— Luke Evans

I try to make each film a different film.

— Michael Snow

I don't want to make a film to make a film.

— Peter Capaldi

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

— Emilio Estevez

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

— Jonathan Glazer

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

— Kiran Rao

When you're young, you're looking for things that make you feel like you could make a film.

— Kelly Reichardt

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

— Norman Jewison

I'm not someone who has to make a film at any cost. I have to find the right way to make it…

— Rithy Panh

When a country's government is involved in something, no filmmaker tries to make a film on it.

— Vivek Agnihotri

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two…

— Keira Knightley

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent…

— Emily Browning

I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I…

— David Fincher

Small events and some songs and dance do not make a film. A film needs to have a proper structure and there…

— Pankaj Kapur

I directed 'Death in the Gunj' which released in 2017. It got very good reviews and a few awards but did not…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

When I used to watch Bollywood films, I would struggle with the fact that our cinema was set in La La Land,…

— Kabir Khan

Back in the 1990s, I had an opportunity to make a film. But I realized that it is better for me to…

— Pankaj Kapur

If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying,…

— Jaco Van Dormael

I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know…

— Guy Pearce

When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to…

— Wong Kar-wai

You can make a film with a phone and a computer if you want, if you have the time. So it's a…

— Fede Alvarez

I don't think you need a lot of money to make a film that's cinematic and deserves to be in theaters, but…

— RaMell Ross

The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I'm trying to…

— Wong Kar-wai

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and…

— Tobias Lindholm

I hate to write and spend months just waiting for the film to get financed. Then when you start preparing the film…

— Olivier Assayas

I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers…

— James Cameron

I think a lot of people go into filmmaking thinking, "How can I make a career?" And so when they make their…

— Andrew Bujalski

I think the tools were always available, for decades and decades, to make your own film and be creative. I don't think…

— Michel Gondry

I generally go into a movie with a very strong vision, with how I want to make the film, how I want…

— James Wan

“So I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like…

— Alain de Botton

For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the…

— Gene Kelly

The amazing fact that one person can make his own film - I think animation is somewhat unique in that respect. I…

— Bill Plympton

I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

— Alex Cox