Mathieu Amalric Quotes

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

For four years, I worked as one of the general shop crew on movies like 'Naked Lunch' and 'Arachnophobia.' I made lots of bugs.

I've had the privilege to work with fantastic directors - Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Ratnam, Inder Kumar, to name a few.

You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.'

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

I like working on big budget films.

I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

I definitely want to go the route of feature films.

After completing my graduation, I went to Mumbai and started working as an assistant casting director. I worked on films like 'Talaash,' 'Ek Mai Aur Ekk Tu,' 'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani' and 'Student Of The Year,' among others.

Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.