Walter Matthau Quotes

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

I make more movies than I see.

I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

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

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

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 added to and at the end you have this thing.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

Making movies is all about instinct.

I love making movies.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.