Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

It's all about having fun and shooting something that you like. Where it goes afterwards is up to the movie gods.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

Making movies is all about instinct.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

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

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

I make more movies than I see.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.