There was a golden era in film-making in Hollywood back in the 1970s, and although there is some great independent film-making in America, it's actually very hard to get independent films made in the United States. It's much more feasible from Europe.

Lenny Abrahamson

Great Wood Woo

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

Aaron Paul

Art Where UN

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Parker

Physically Physical Making

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

Alexander Payne

Men Vice Us

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

Alicia Vikander

Very Tin Ted

India as a film-making nation has gained recognition, at last, at most important Western and Far Eastern forums.

Amitabh Bachchan

Easter Western West

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Ang Lee

Movies USC Us

We have a lot of respect for the fact that you can't make movies without money and that when money comes to the table, that money deserves to have a place in the process as much as anything else in the film-making equation.

Anthony Russo

Respect Movies Money

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

Asif Kapadia

Sports T Sports Fan

At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.

Barry Jenkins

Whole Who Thing

My passion for film-making was bordering indulgence. But gone are those days when I was adventurous.

Boney Kapoor

Vent Us Those

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

Brigitte Bardot

Ted T Making

I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.

Charles Sturridge

Hope World Vent

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

David Lynch

Your You True

Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.

David MacKenzie

Nature You Wit

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

David Puttnam

Time Life Art

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.

Domhnall Gleeson

Time Men Art

I turned in a script that meant a lot to me and an executive at Warner Bros said he was disappointed in me. I took a hit of confidence and stepped away from film-making for some time.

Dustin Lance Black

War Time Way

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Art Wanted Want

I use my film-making to work through my deep questions and my deep problems. I think I could watch each film and tell you exactly which part of my psyche I'm trying to work out.

George Clooney

Work Art You

For many years, wildlife film-making has presented a pristine living world. It has created an impression of security and abundance, even in places afflicted by cascading ecological collapse.

George Monbiot

Life Years Year

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Guy Pearce

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

Guy Ritchie

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

Henry Selick

I would say the most difficult part of film-making is dealing with people you are working with and trying to forget the drama that goes behind the scenes.

Ileana D'Cruz

With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.

James Wan

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Jane Campion

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

John Musker

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.

John Rhys-Davies

My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.

Karan Johar

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

Karl Urban

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

Karthik Subbaraj

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

Kathryn Bigelow

It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. I never enjoyed making films. I didn't like the whole film world - an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I'm used to.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

Lenny Abrahamson

There was a golden era in film-making in Hollywood back in the 1970s, and although there is some great independent film-making in America, it's actually very hard to get independent films made in the United States. It's much more feasible from Europe.

Lenny Abrahamson

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

Logan Lerman

In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film I did was silent. What I'm trying to say is that, yes, I'm Italian, and yes, I make films with Italian money, but personally, I've always been invested in the broader world of film-making.

Luca Guadagnino

I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

Maggie Grace

When the film industry moves to the 21st century, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the money used in film-making is clean and devoid of any underworld connections.

Mahesh Bhatt

What is film-making about if not romance?

Mani Ratnam

Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining a certain standard that does the trick.

Mani Ratnam

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 it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

Matthew Lillard

For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.

Morten Tyldum

I just happen to love film-making.

Nathan Phillips

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

Paul Greengrass

I always tell young film-makers, 'Find the song that only you can sing.' It doesn't just come to you. It's trial and error and disappointment before you find, slowly but surely, the confidence to express your film-making identity.

Paul Greengrass

I enjoy production more than acting, as one is involved in many aspects of film-making.

Pooja Bhatt

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.

Priyanka Chopra

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Rebecca Miller