Movie Quote by Diablo Cody

I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is…

— Dagur Kari

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

— Alexander Payne

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

— Sydney Pollack

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole…

— Nicole Holofcener

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

— Peter Jackson

When you do a movie, it comes out of many different ideas that you had.

— Gaspar Noe

My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when…

— Bill Plympton

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into…

— James Gray

When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a…

— John Sayles

I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something.

— Sydney Pollack

It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.

— Kevin Heffernan

Sometimes films don't turn out the way they were envisioned on paper. And when that happens, one must just forget the entire episode.

— Neha Dhupia