Franka Potente Quotes

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

I really enjoy working on small films.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they do all the time. So you just have to figure out how to get through it, and then how the director finally puts it together, and then see what the audience takes from it. That's the most important thing to me.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Filmmakers are always in a bubble; along with our crew or writer, we don't really get to socialize with other filmmakers, so the great thing about Sundance is you can see many other filmmakers doing the same thing you do.

'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an enormous honor to be in a Robert Altman movie.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Big feature films are another world.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.