Tony Todd Quotes

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

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

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

I love making movies.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

I'd love to make a horror movie, that's definitely where I want to be one day.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

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.