Rachel Morrison Quotes

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.

Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully.

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 would love to produce a film.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

There are so many things that go into a movie that it's amazing that anything gets made anyway.

I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

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

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

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

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.