Bitter Quote by Marlene Dietrich

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

— Guillermo del Toro

Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can…

— Woody Allen

When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.

— Hutch Parker

Any film is at least better than real life.

— Quentin Crisp

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

— Pauline Kael

I've always felt that I shouldn't make a movie if someone else could do it better.

— Joe Dante

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure…

— Shahid Kapoor

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I was younger, making films was so all-consuming. It was a life-or-death thing. Films still mean so much to me when I'm making…

— Lynne Ramsay

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In film-making, so much can go wrong, and I feel like the same is with life, right?

— Kate Herron

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

— A. J. Bowen