Robin Williams Quotes

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

I got the 'Max Rose' script, and I fell in love with it. It just hit me. It was something that needed to be made.

You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

Film has its own innate poetry.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie 'Tiny Furniture' that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I'm just inspired by people like that.

What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

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.

I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

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

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

I saw 'The Fountain' because my friend came over one day and said, 'This is my favorite movie I've ever seen. Please watch this,' and I watched it, and that was amazing.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.