Colleen Haskell Quotes

Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I remember telling the 'Tangled' crew about grimace moments: how when you watch a movie that you worked on and you think, 'Ah, I wish we could have done that scene better,' or, 'I wish that we'd had the time or the money to fix that particular story problem.'

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.

I love making movies.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

I love the work that goes into making a movie and creating a different world. It is a wholesome experience.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

Many people don't understand that in filmmaking, if you make a fundamental mistake, everything goes wrong - but you don't realise it till the film is made.

There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.

It's really intense to write and make a movie and produce it and have it come out in the world. It's a very vulnerable thing.

I must admit, strong films are more interesting to me, as, by the end of the day's shooting, you feel good.

With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.

I've had scenes where I had to cry, and by the time I've cried for the 20th time, I'm exhausted.

In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative, I loved the writing, I loved the making of it. Because I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one. So the next one was always, "how am I going to do this?" And that thing was sort of always the thing that made me a little chickenshit to go into the next one. The writing of it was great and the making of it was great, but how am I going to release this thing and am I going to find a studio?