Cinema Quote by Neill Blomkamp

I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.

— Ben Barnes

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

— Jodie Foster

To me, the only purpose in making films, in my mind, is to talk about something and go to a place that might be…

— Charlie McDowell

That can be undersold, I think, the importance when you're trying to do something good is that everybody understands the director's vision, everybody believes…

— Suzanne Todd

There are different reasons to make movies.

— Aaron Eckhart

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be…

— Laura Ziskin

If we could tell a film, then why make a film?

— Jafar Panahi

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or…

— Ryan Phillippe

There are a million logical reasons to not make a film, and I think if you get focused on all the critics or money…

— Brad Bird

Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them to be…

— Jody Hill

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