Alessandro Nivola Quotes

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I make more movies than I see.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.

It was nice to be reminded of how much hard work goes into movies, and how as a director, it's your job to acknowledge and channel that hard work. She's amazing at that.

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

Getting any movie made is just like trying to push a giant boulder up a mountain, and there's so many moving parts. Obviously, there's the creative side, and then there's the logistical side, and they're both colossal.

I didn't come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I've always respected the actual production process and producers in general.

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

Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.