Beginning middle and end Quote by Mark Boal

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

— Anonymous

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

— Bill Paxton

I have never had great expectations of my performance or of a film. I try not to think about the outcome. If you look…

— Heath Ledger

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of…

— Lucy Liu

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the…

— Atom Egoyan

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

— Hal Hartley

If I bother about the expectations how will I make a film?

— Shoojit Sircar

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without…

— Ken Burns

You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the…

— David O. Russell

Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film is like…

— Jeremy Davies

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

— Elizabeth Banks

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that…

— Josh Radnor