Marc Forster Quotes

Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

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

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

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.

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

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

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.

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

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

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

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I love making movies.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

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

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

Making a film is a very difficult thing to do, but the experience of 'Best F(r)iends' is a great memory.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.