Mark Waters Quotes

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

I know what a good movie is.

Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it's a certain type of film that I'm not massively bothered about.

The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.