Alive Quote by Parker Posey

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount…

— John Carney

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

— Barry Jenkins

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think…

— Matthew Lillard

I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a…

— Roger Corman

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

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are…

— Ronnie Apteker

There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is…

— Clint Howard

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Making movies is a lot like being a construction worker. There are long intense stretches of work followed by nothing. It's not easy to…

— Robert Schenkkan

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just…

— Forest Whitaker

If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and…

— Anton Corbijn

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

— Kevin Smith