Irwin Winkler Quotes

I would love to produce a film.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

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

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions - everything.

I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people.

I like to produce my own movies.

I think a big bucket list item for me and Jonathan is to produce some of our own scripted films and series.

The thing about movies is that till it goes on floors, it's just preparations for the film.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

I started my production house with the idea of directing one day.

In films, you have to follow the director's vision. Filmmaking is a director's medium. So everything happens as per the script and his vision.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.