Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.

It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

Scripts don't get movies made.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

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.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.