Wilfrid Sheed Quotes

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

You just never know when today's cultural outcasts will become tomorrow's cultural icons.

People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because of what's happening in the world.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Movies are details. Movies are billions of details that come into a certain moment. So with all the years and months and weeks and days and minutes of preparation, then finally you're shooting and it all comes down to these moments when you're shooting, which is sort of insane when you think about it. The details make a difference.

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

You're in the middle of making a movie and this part of the process is always very interesting. Because you think what you're making your movie is and then you start putting it out there, and then people tell you what your movie is.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.