Lucy Walker Quotes

I think, quite often, filmmakers kind of think so much about what the franchise will be and sometimes can neglect to put their efforts into the movie that they are actually making.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

I think that making a movie is not just making the movie - it is also about having thoughtful ideas and embracing all the aspects of its launch.

I just want to do films which I enjoy doing and the audience will too like it watching.

I want to only be part of films that are worth my time. I give my heart and soul for four-five months and I don't want that to go in vain.

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

Both 'Gulabo Sitabo' and 'Udham Singh' are cinematic experiences; nothing is less, nothing is more. It's all about creating good cinema.

I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go?

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

Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

Our films tremendously influence people. But at the same time, no one goes to the cinema to listen to lectures, so if you have an interesting story, and if you can showcase it as a film, and its messages are good, then it's like an icing on the cake: it shall be a superhit. And if I get those kind of films, I'll definitely want to work on it.

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate with them when I make films, but that is not the only thing. I also want to say something which I feel deeply, and which I feel I can connect with the rest of the audience.

At the end of the day, you are doing the film for the audience.

I take time with my films and I want to work on every script properly before I move on to something else.

Our vision is to break the projects into stories that must be told, stories that we would like to tell and stories that people go to movies for. If we can find great scripts that fit these three categories, we will go out and make a movie.

A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters.