Marcus Sakey Quotes

We always set out to just make a great movie.

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.

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

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I make more movies than I see.

Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

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.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

When you're making a show or a movie, there are a million people and things in your way. As an actor, you're like a glorified session musician or player. You really are.

Movies require so many moving pieces to align that it really is a miracle that anything is made!

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.

I always knew the script was important, but I didn't realize how important until you get out there and just deal with the issues of putting a movie together. It's amazing that anything works, to be totally honest.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

I have always wanted to work with Rajshri Productions.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.

When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.

Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.